zipping lists in R

I came across a similar problem today. And after learning the usage of the func mapply, I know how to solve it now.

mapply is so cool!!

Here is an examples:

en = c("cattle", "chicken", "pig")
zh = c("牛",      "鸡",      "猪")

dict <- new.env(hash = TRUE)
Add <- function(key, val) dict[[key]] <- val

mapply(Add, en, zh)
##  cattle chicken     pig 
##    "牛"    "鸡"    "猪"

I think you're looking for mapply:

   ‘mapply’ is a multivariate version of ‘sapply’.  ‘mapply’ applies
     ‘FUN’ to the first elements of each ...  argument, the second
     elements, the third elements, and so on.  Arguments are recycled
     if necessary.

For your example, use mapply(f, A, B)