You have four elements in ind and three elements in example, then, try this
mapply('[', example, ind[1:3])
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Greg Hirson <ghir...@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I have two lists: one with data and one with TRUE/FALSE values for data I
> want to further analyze (see example below). I have been able to use a for
> loop to extract the data that I want to keep, but think that there probably
> exists a way to do it without a loop. Any ideas?
>
> #sample data
> set.seed(100)
> example = list(letters[1:10], letters[1:10], letters[1:10])
> ind = list(as.logical(sample(0:1, 10, rep=TRUE)), as.logical(sample(0:1,
> 10, rep=TRUE)), as.logical(sample(0:1, 10, rep=TRUE)),
> as.logical(sample(0:1, 10, rep=TRUE)))
>
> #loop method
> for (i in 1:length(example)) print(example[[i]][ind[[i]]])
>
> #result
> [1] "c" "g" "i"
> [1] "a" "b" "e" "f" "j"
> [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "g" "h" "i"
>
>
> Thank you for the help.
>
> Greg
>
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