Hello, If I understand it now, can't you do this: Individual cases: list4<-list(mango[[1]],banana[[1]],pineapple[[1]]) b<-list() for(i in 1:3){ b[[i]]<-list() b[[i]]<-lapply(list4[[i]],FUN=function(x)x[which.max(x)]) } b1<-data.frame(do.call(rbind,b)) row.names(b1)<-c("mango","banana","pineapple") b1 coconut mango 6 banana 18 pineapple 9 apply(b1,2, function(x) x[which.max(x)]) #$coconut #$coconut$banana #[1] 18
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