Ah ?Extract. Thanks
Unless I'm missing something there is nothing in the
Usage or Examples to suggest to a naive reader like me
that one can use an unbalanced [ or [[, that is
withoug a corresponding ] or ]].
I probably am just not understanding the details.
--- Henrique Dallazuanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 13/03/2008, John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > My thanks to Henrique Dallazuanna and Phil
> Spector.
> > Both solutions worked well.
> > Phil suggested that an alterative to my function
> would
> > be
> > vect1 = sapply(mylist,'[[',1)
> > and I see that Henrique used `[` in his solution.
> >
> > Can you point me to some documentation that
> discusses
> > these usages. I have seen them before but I have
> never
> > actually figured out how to use them.?
>
> See ?Extract
>
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Problem and solutions
> >
>
========================================================
> > mylist <- list(aa=c("cat","peach" ), bb=c("dog",
> > "apple", "iron"),
> > cc = c("rabbit", "orange", "zinc",
> "silk"))
> > myfun <- function(dff) dff[1]
> > vect1 <- unlist(lapply(mylist, myfun))
> >
> > # Desired output
> > t(cbind( c("cat" , "peach" , NA, NA), bbb <-
> c("dog"
> > , "apple" ,"iron", NA),
> > ccb <- c("rabbit" ,"orange" ,"zinc" , "silk" )))
> >
> > # Phil Spector's approach
> > mlen = max(sapply(mylist,length))
> > eqlens = lapply(mylist,function(x)if(length(x) <
> mlen)
> >
> > c(x,rep('',mlen-length(x))) else x)
> > do.call(rbind,eqlens)
> >
> > # "Henrique Dallazuanna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > # I added the t()
> > t(as.data.frame(lapply(mylist, `[`,
> > 1:max(unlist(lapply(mylist,
> > length))))))
> >
> >
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>
>
> --
> Henrique Dallazuanna
> Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil
> 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O
>
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