Hi- I am trying use the get function to return the value of an object within a list. As an abbreviated example:
"original" represents a list of several objects, one of which is "a.1". original<-vector('list',5) names(original) <- c("a.1","a.2","a.3","b.1","b.2") original$a.1 <- c(4,3) When I enter: original$a.1 R returns the following vector [1] 4 3 however, when I enter: get("original$a.1") R returns the following error: "Error in get("original$a.1") : object 'original$a.1' not found" Does anyone happen to know how to resolve this error? I pose this question because ultimately I would like to use the get function to convert particular objects within "original" into separate lists as: species <- c(1,2,3) A <- vector('list',length(species)) A <- lapply(paste("original$a.", species, sep=""), get) I apologize if I missed this question in a previous post. Many thanks- -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Using-the-get-function-on-an-object-within-a-list-tp1745965p1745965.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.