On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Rolf: it's not what's inside the lapplys that i was interested in which
probably made my question more confusing. all i was trying to show was that,
in EXAMPLE 1, the name comes back at the top level of the result.
in EXAMPLE 2, i can use the name GGG inside the lapply functon to do whatever
( the whatever was just a stupid example which can be disregarded ).
my question is : is it possible to do both: be able to return the name at the
top level but also mess with the name inside the lapply.
Mark,
Does this idiom help?
mapply( my.fun, names(x), x )
where my.fun takes two args: name.x.i and x.i (say).
HTH,
Chuck
i'm ccing the list
again because it's quite clear that my question was ill posed. thanks for
that enlightenment. I can't show my actual example because it's too
complicated but essentially i want to be able to return GGG at the top level
like EXAMPLE 1 does but also use GGG inside the lapply like EXAMPLE 2 does.
Thanks for telling me that i'm confusing !!!!
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
Mark:
What the <expletive deleted> are you actually trying to do? Your two
applications
of lapply() do in effect quite different things. The first gives a list
of
length 1; the single entry is named ``GGG''; this entry is a list of
length 3.
The second application gives a list of length 3. Each entry of this list
is a vector
of length 1. The single entry of each such vector has name ``GGG'' just as
you requested.
R does what you ask it to do. You have to be clear in your own mind as to
just
what you're asking.
cheers,
Rolf
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