>> How about an argument to lapply which would specify the [ or [[ subseting >> to use >> in the splitting of the vector? >> Or may be a different set of functions lapply1, >> sapply1? >> >> > I'm not sure what you want exactly, but what about just using mapply over > the names and vector elements? >
General rule for "[[" operator is to extract the atomic part of the object. "[" instead returns an object of the same type as original. Just imagine an S4 objects with multiple parallel vectors as slots. My "[" extracts an object of the same class as the original, but now, in each slot is an element with length one. With current tools in R one can not loop through such an object easily. If a version of "lapply" would exist which would split the original object with "[" the problem would be solved. Thanks for the tip on mapply, works for the names indeed. Never occurred to me, ashamed. > > >> I believe this pattern is rather common for other users as well. >> >> Thanks. >> VS. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
