Thank you Jeff and Bert. I know i have to use dput add provide a reproducible example. The problem is that the output,is huge, has many nested lists, and the info is private.
Here is the first line of dput(FF) if it helps: dput(FF) list(list(list(structure(c("12/30 12/30", "01/02 01/02", "01/02 01/02", Thanks again--EK On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 11:21 AM Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: > > Can you supply the output of > > dput(FF) > > ? > > On November 2, 2018 8:00:08 AM PDT, Ek Esawi <esaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Hi All, > > > >I have a list that is made up of nested lists, as shown below. I want > >to remove all rows in each sub-list that start with an empty space, > >that’s the first entry of a row is blank; for example, on > >[[1]][[1]][[1]] Remove row 4,on [[1]][[1]][[3]] remove row 5, on > >[[1]][[2]][[1]] remove row 6, etc.. All rows start with 2 digits/ 2 > >digits. My formula works on individual sublist but not the whole > >list.. I know my indexing is wrong, but don’t know how to fix it. > > > > > >> FF > > > >[[1]] > >[[1]][[1]] > >[[1]][[1]][[1]] > >[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] > >[1,] "30/20" "AAAAAAAA" “ “ "-89" > >[2,] "02/20" "AAAAAAAA” “ “ "-98" > >[3,] "02/20" “AAAAAAA” “ “ "-84" > >[4,] “ “ “ “ “ > >[[1]][[1]][[2]] > >[,1] [,2] > >[1,] "02/23" “AAAAAAAA” : 29" “ > >[2,] "02/23" “AAAAAAAA” ." “ > >[3,] "02/23" “AAAAAAAA” " “ > >[4,] "02/23" “AAAAAAAA” " > >[[1]][[1]][[3]] > >[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] > >[1,] "01/09" “AAAAAAAA" “ “ “ "53" > >[2,] "01/09" “AAAAAAAA” " “ “ “ "403" > >[3,] "01/09" “AAAAAAAA” " “ “ “ "83" > >[4,] "01/09" “AAAAAAAA” " “ “ “ "783" > >[5,] “ “ “AAAAAAAA” 3042742181" “ “ “ “ > >[[1]][[2]] > >[[1]][[2]][[1]] > >[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] > >[1,] “ “ “ “ “AAAAAAAA” " > >[2,] "Standard Purchases" “ “ “ " > >[3,] "24/90 "AAAAAAAA” “ "243" " > >[4,] "24/90 "AAAAAAAA” " "143" " > >[5,] "24/91 "AAAAAAAA” " “ "143" “ > >[6,] “ “ “ “ "792" > >[[1]][[2]][[2]] > >[,1] [,2] > >[1,] "02/23" “AAAAAAAA”: 31" “ > >[2,] "02/23" “AAAAAAAA”." “ > >[3,] "02/23" “AAAAAAAA” " “ > >[4,] "02/23" “AAAAAAAA” > >[5,] "02/23" “AAAAAAAA” > >[6,] "02/23" “AAAAAAAA” 20" > >[7,] "02/23" “AAAAAAAA” “ > >[8,] "02/23" “AAAAAAAA” "33" > >[[1]][[3]] > >[[1]][[3]][[1]] > >[,1] [,2] > >[1,] "02/23" “AAAAAAAA”: 28" “ > >[2,] "02/23" “AAAAAAAA”." “ > >[3,] "02/23" “AAAAAAAA” " “ > >[4,] "02/23" “AAAAAAAA” " > >[[1]][[3]][[2]] > >[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] > >[1,] "02/23" “AAAAAAAA” " “ “ "53" " > >[2,] "02/24" “AAAAAAAA” " “ “ " > >[3,] “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ "1,241" > >[4,] "02/24" "AAAAAAAA” “ "33” > > > >My Formula,: > > > >G <- lapply(FF, function(x) lapply(x, function (y) lapply(y, > >function(z) z[grepl("^[0-9][0-9]/",z[,1]),]))) > > > >The error: Error in z[, 1] : incorrect number of dimensions > > > > > > > >Thanks in advance--EK > > > >______________________________________________ > >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. > > -- > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ 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.