Hello Jonathan, Look at ?sapply Does something like this do what you want?
max(sapply(yourlist, max)) Josh On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Jonathan <jonsle...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm hoping this question has a simple answer, but I can't find it through > searching or trying commands. > > I have a list of numeric vectors called 'husk'. I'd just like to treat the > set of all numbers from all vectors in the list as if it were one large > vector, because I'd like to extract information, such as what is the max > entry from all the numbers. > >> husk > [[1]] > [1] 2 5 > > [[2]] > [1] 2 17 > > [[3]] > [1] 2 > > [[4]] > [1] 17 > >> max(husk) > Error in max(husk) : invalid 'type' (list) of argument > >> max(husk[]) > Error in max(husk[]) : invalid 'type' (list) of argument > >> max(husk[[]]) > Error in husk[[]] : invalid subscript type 'symbol' > >> max(husk[[1:length(husk)]]) > Error in husk[[1:length(husk)]] : recursive indexing failed at level 2 > >> max(husk[1:length(husk)]) > Error in max(husk[1:length(husk)]) : invalid 'type' (list) of argument > > Any ideas would be appreciated! > > Best, > Jonathan > > [[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. > -- Joshua Wiley Senior in Psychology University of California, Riverside http://www.joshuawiley.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.
