Hi, my dataset is the result of the function "density" on another set of data. It refers to that data in its variable "call", though since all the results are actually reproduced (except that I've removed all rows bar 10), I am not sure why R still needs it. But I've understood now why your code doesn't work on my data: your sublists are still just dataframes, whereas my sublists contain all sorts of vectors (2 numerical vectors and 5 other things). I've changed your data to make it look a bit more like mine, and you'll see that the code doesn't work.
mango <- list(data.frame(coconut=1:6), y=c(4,5,3,2,1,8), bw=c(4,18,12,3,4,9), nn=paste0("a",1:6)) banana <- list(data.frame(coconut=c(1,2,18,16,15)), y=c(4,5,9,2,1), bw=c(4,18,22,3,4), nn=paste0("a",1:5)) pineapple <- list(data.frame(coconut=c(4,6,9)), y=c(8,24,12), bw=c(14,31,36), nn=paste0("a",1:3)) list4 <- list(mango, banana, pineapple) b <- list() for(i in 1:3){ b[[i]] <- list() b[[i]] <- lapply (list4[[i]]$coconut, FUN=function(x) x[which.max(x)]) } b summary( b) What I want to end up with is the following: coconut mango 6 banana 18 pineapple 9 (that's for the individual sublists) and coconut 18 (that's for the list as a whole). Hope this is becoming a bit clearer ... -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/apply-function-over-same-column-of-all-objects-in-a-list-tp4638681p4638876.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.