Try this: x$second <- NULL
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Eduardo de Oliveira Horta < eduardo.oliveiraho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > say I have an object > > > x = list(first = 10, second = 20, third = "Yeah!") > > and want to remove the $second element of that list. My first try was, of > course, > > > rm(x$second) > > which gave me the following error message > > > Error in rm(x$second) : ... must contain names or character strings > > Any ideas here, folks? > > Best regards, and Merry Christmas! > > Eduardo Horta > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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