Jennifer - Does this do what you want?
v1 = sapply(output,'[[','vec') v2 = sapply(output,'[[','other') v1
[,1] [,2] [1,] 1 6 [2,] 2 7 [3,] 3 8 [4,] 4 9 [5,] 5 10
v2
[1] "stuff" "stuff"
(in more readable form: v1 = sapply(output,function(x)x$vec) v2 = sapply(output,function(x)x$other) ) Notice that if the objects returned by sapply are not conformable, it will return its result in a list. - Phil Spector Statistical Computing Facility Department of Statistics UC Berkeley spec...@stat.berkeley.edu On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Jennifer Young wrote:
Good evening I often have as output from simulations a list of various values, vectors and matrices. Supposing that I then run said simulation several times, I often want to extract a particular result from each simulation for plotting and, ideally, put it in a matrix. A simple example v1 <- 1:5 v2 <- 6:10 other1 <- "stuff" other2 <- "stuff" set1 <- list(v1,other1) names(set1) <- c("vec","other") set2 <- list(v2,other2) names(set2) <- c("vec","other") output <- list(set1, set2) Is there some form of lapply() that will allow me to extract v1 and v2 (ie, the $vec elements) from both sets? Bonus if I can then put it into a matrix tidily. many thanks Jennifer Young ______________________________________________ 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.
______________________________________________ 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.