This approach may not be fancy as what you are looking for.
> xl <- unlist(x) > xl[grep("A", names(xl))] f1.x1.A f1.x2.A f2.x3.A f2.x4.A 11 12 13 14 > I hope this helps. Chel Hee Lee On 01/16/2015 04:40 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote:
Hi Consider the following variable: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- x1 <- list( A = 11, B = 21, C = 31 ) x2 <- list( A = 12, B = 22, C = 32 ) x3 <- list( A = 13, B = 23, C = 33 ) x4 <- list( A = 14, B = 24, C = 34 ) y1 <- list( x1 = x1, x2 = x2 ) y2 <- list( x3 = x3, x4 = x4 ) x <- list( f1 = y1, f2 = y2 ) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- To extract all fields named "A" from y1, I can do ,---- | > sapply(y1, "[[", "A") | x1 x2 | 11 12 `---- But how can I do the same for x? I could put an sapply into an sapply, but this would be less then elegant. Is there an easier way of doing this? Thanks, Rainer ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
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