[R] Working with lists

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, William Vedder wrote:

> I'm stuck and would appreciate some help.
>
> After writing a function to generate a random sample from vector
> "rand1":
> > f<-function(i) {y<-sample(rand1,296,replace=F)}
>
> and using the function to generate multiple samples from rand1 and store
> the results in list "l":
> > l<-lapply(1:100,f)
>
> I can't get the next step accomplished; I'd like to sort each of the
> generated samples.  I've tried:
> > sort(l)
>
> but get the msg:
> Error in sort(l) : `x' must be atomic

You want to sort the components, not the list (I think) so use lapply
again:

l <- lapply(l, sort)

BTW, a for() loop is also a reasonable solution:

for(i in seq(along=l)) l[[i]] <- sort(l[[i]])

but less readable.

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