Re: [R] Idiomatic looping over list name, value pairs in R

Thank you. Your response was enlightening. On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 04/05/2010 10:24 AM, Luis N wrote: >> >> Considering the python code: >> >> for k, v in d.items(): do_something(k); do_something_else(v) >> >> I have the following for R: >> >> for (i in c(1:len

Re: [R] Idiomatic looping over list name, value pairs in R

On 04/05/2010 10:24 AM, Luis N wrote: Considering the python code: for k, v in d.items(): do_something(k); do_something_else(v) I have the following for R: for (i in c(1:length(d))) { do_something(names(d[i])); do_something_else(d[[i]]) } This does not seem seems idiomatic. What is the best w

Re: [R] Idiomatic looping over list name, value pairs in R

don't you create a data frame (or a matrix) and call apply on the columns? Christos > Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 23:24:11 +0900 > From: globoph...@gmail.com > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Idiomatic looping over list name, value pairs in R > > Considering the pyth

[R] Idiomatic looping over list name, value pairs in R

Considering the python code: for k, v in d.items(): do_something(k); do_something_else(v) I have the following for R: for (i in c(1:length(d))) { do_something(names(d[i])); do_something_else(d[[i]]) } This does not seem seems idiomatic. What is the best way of doing the same with R? Thanks. L