Sorry for the delay of my reply, I have been out of office for few days.

Thank you to all of you.

Both solutions work well; fortunately the structure of the data frames is 
identical, rbind works perfectly and this second solution is slightly easier to 
implement for me.


Thank you again for your help

Stefano


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Da: Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com>
Inviato: giovedì 15 dicembre 2022 18:31
A: Gerrit Eichner; Stefano Sofia
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Oggetto: Re: [R] Get data from a list of data frames

Well, just for giggles, Gerrit's solution can be easily vectorized (i.e. no 
apply()-type stuff needed) IFF the structure of all the data frames are 
identical so that rbind() works:

d <-do.call('rbind',Total[select.stat]) ## one data frame to combine them all 
;-)
d[d$sensor == 'thermometer','code']

Whether this is better, worse, or unneeded, I cannot say.

Cheers,
Bert


On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 6:11 AM Gerrit Eichner 
<gerrit.eich...@math.uni-giessen.de<mailto:gerrit.eich...@math.uni-giessen.de>> 
wrote:
Hello, Stefano,

maybe the following example contains what you want to achieve:

Station1 <- data.frame(sensor = c("thermometer", "raingauge",
"snowgauge", "anemometer"),
                        code = c(2583, 1478, 3178, NA))
Station2 <- data.frame(sensor = c("thermometer", "raingauge",
"snowgauge", "anemometer"),
                        code = c(2584, 1479, 3179, 4453))
Station3 <- data.frame(sensor = c("thermometer", "raingauge",
"snowgauge", "anemometer"),
                        code = c(2584, 1479, 3179, 4453))
Station4 <- data.frame(sensor = rev(c("thermometer", "raingauge",
"snowgauge", "anemometer")),
                        code = c(2584, 1479, 3179, 4453))
Station5 <- data.frame(sensor = c("raingauge", "snowgauge",
"thermometer", "anemometer"),
                        code = c(2584, 1479, 3179, 4453))

Total <- list("Station1"=Station1, "Station2"=Station2,
               Station3 = Station3, Station4 = Station4,
               Station5 = Station5)

select.stat <- paste0("Station", c(1, 4, 5))
select.sens <- "thermometer"

sapply(Total[select.stat], function(x, sens)
   x$code[x$sensor == sens], sens = select.sens)



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Am 15.12.2022 um 14:52 schrieb Stefano Sofia:
> Dear R-list users,
>
> I have a list of n data frames built as follows:
>
>
> Station1 <- data.frame(sensor = c("thermometer", "raingauge", "snowgauge", 
> "anemometer"), code = c(2583, 1478, 3178, NA))
> Station2 <- data.frame(sensor = c("thermometer", "raingauge", "snowgauge", 
> "anemometer"), code = c(2584, 1479, 3179, 4453))
> ....
>
> Total <- list("Station1"=Station1, "Station2"=Station2, ...)
>
> I would need to have a vector with the sensor codes of the thermometers of 
> some stations, let's say of Station1, Station2 and Station5 (i.e. c(2583, 
> 2584, 2587)).
> I tried with lapply, but I have not been able to get what I need.
> Could you please help me?
>
> Thank you
>
> Stefano
>
>
>
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