If you want the object names, you should use lapply over the names: lapply(names(c), function(x) {c[[x]]})
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de > wrote: > > > On 25.02.2016 22:27, Mohammad Tanvir Ahamed via R-help wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I want to get object name of a list inside lapply >> >> c<-list(a=seq(1:5),b=seq(10:20)) >>> lapply(c,names) >>> >> $a >> NULL >> >> $b >> NULL >> >> Why NULL ? >> > > Why should it? seq(1:5) has no names, nor has seq(10:20). > > Best, > Uwe Ligges > > > > > > >> but i am expecting the names of object . Any help will be appreciated . >> >> I want to grab the names of object inside lapply for further process. >> >> Thanks . >> >> >> Tanvir Ahamed >> Göteborg, Sweden | mashra...@yahoo.com >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> >> > ______________________________________________ > 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.