On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 21:01:06 +0000 (UTC) Andras Farkas via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> wrote:
> listA<-list(a,b,c) > listB<-list(d,e,f) > > what I would like to do with a function <...> as opposed to manually > is to derive the following answer > > listfinal<-list(a[-d],b[-e],c[-f]) The `Map` function, unlike `lapply`, iterates over its arguments simultaneously: Map(function(dt, idx) dt[-idx], listA, listB) # [[1]] # [1] "1999-07-31" "1999-06-12" # # [[2]] # [1] "1999-03-10" "1999-04-04" # # [[3]] # [1] "1999-08-07" -- Best regards, Ivan ______________________________________________ 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.