On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Vitaly S. <spinuvit.list@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Dear R developers,
>
> Reviewing my code, I have realized that about 80% of the time in the lapply
> I
> need to access the names of the objects inside the loop.
>
> In such cases I iterate over indexes or names:
> lapply(names(x), ... [i]),
> lapply(seq_along(x),  ... x[[i]] ... names(x)[i] ), or
> for(i in seq_along(x)) ...
>
> which is rather inconvenient.
>
> How about an argument to lapply which would specify the [ or [[ subseting
> to use
> in the splitting of the vector?
> Or may be a different set of functions lapply1,
> sapply1?
>
>
I'm not sure what you want exactly, but  what about just using mapply over
the names and vector elements?


> I believe this pattern is rather common for other users as well.
>
> Thanks.
> VS.
>
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