Hello Jim,
jim holtman <jholtman <at> gmail.com> writes: > > try: > > myindex <- "01-Dec-2008" > > weblog_by_date[[myindex]]$host [...] Ooops yes, that works! Thank you! I don't know why this works, and the other thing not. I thought the difference between [] and [[]] is just, that the one gives back a list and the other grabs out the values of a list by "unlist"ing it... so that one gets a vector instead of a complete list. Ciao, oliver ______________________________________________ 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.