Hi Arun:
Exactly. That's exactly what I'm looking for!
On 2012-11-12, at 5:55 PM, arun kirshna [via R] wrote:
> Hi,
> Seems like there was a typo in "mylist"
> mylist<-list(df1=data.frame(a=seq(1,10,1), c=seq(1,10,1), q10=rep('favour',
> 10)), df2=data.frame(a=seq(1,10,1), b=seq(15,24,1), q14=rep('favour', 10)))
> Are you looking for something like this?
> lapply(mylist,function(x) x[colnames(x)%in% c("a","q10","q14")])
> #$df1
> # a q10
> #1 1 favour
> #2 2 favour
> #3 3 favour
> #4 4 favour
> #5 5 favour
> #6 6 favour
> #7 7 favour
> #8 8 favour
> #9 9 favour
> #10 10 favour
>
> #$df2
> # a q14
> #1 1 favour
> #2 2 favour
> #3 3 favour
> #4 4 favour
> #5 5 favour
> #6 6 favour
> #7 7 favour
> #8 8 favour
> #9 9 favour
> #10 10 favour
> A.K.
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