What you want is: wf[[fl[1]]]
'fl' is a vector, so you should only be using a single '[' for indexing. On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:20 AM, Dirkheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a dataframe wf existing of a header with different labels and beneath > the values of those labels : > wf: > label1 label2 ... > 0,45 0,21 > 0,10 0,45 > .... .... > > I have a list > fl <- c("label2","label3",..) > > Isn't possible to use the list elements in the list in order to subtract > values from the dataframe? like : > wf$fl[[1]] > When I do in R I get :NULL > fl[[1]] gives "label2" so no problem here... > > While wf$label1 works fine. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/use-list-elements-to-subtract-values-from-the-dataframe-tp17098923p17098923.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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.