There is one useful trick with `backticks` you probably didn't try yet: ?`$`
And right after that, try: ?`[[` It is important to read both of these documents :) Kenn On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Gundala Viswanath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi all, > > I have the following named list: > > > print(y) > $`200052_s_at` > [1] -1066.975 -1063.893 -1062.815 -1062.121 -1059.004 > > $`200071_at` > [1] -959.823 -953.980 -953.886 -948.781 -974.890 > > $`200084_at` > [1] -1135.804 -1132.863 -1128.197 -1128.633 -1125.890 > > > What I want to do is to iterate this name list and process its members. > To do that I attempt the following code (but failed): > > __BEGIN__ > ny <- names(y) > > for (i in ny) { > val <- paste("`",i,"`",sep="") > print(y$val) > > # later we want to process y$val > } > > __END__ > However the after printing it gives "NULL". > What's wrong with my code above? > > > - Gundala Viswanath > Jakarta - Indonesia > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > 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 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.