One way to answer it would be comparing: system.time(replicate(10^5, l[[1]] ) ) system.time(replicate(10^5, l[['name']] ) )
HTH, Jorge On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Peng Yu <> wrote: > I'm wondering if the speed of accessing list element by index is the > same as that of accessing list element by name. > > l[[1]] > l[['name']] > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
