[R] removing NULL elements from a list: Thanks

[Ramon Diaz]

Thank you very much for the very helpful responses from D. Bates, P. Dalgaard, 
J. Holtman, D. James, U. Ligges, V. Ogranovich, C. Ortega, B. D. Ripley and 
T. Plate. 


The original question is at the end.
Most of the answers were: (A is the list, with the NULLs I want to get rid of)

A[!sapply(A, is.null)]

A[!unlist(lapply(A, is.null))]

A[sapply(A, is.null)] <- NULL ## potentially confussing, as pointed out by 
B.D. Ripley


Thanks again,

Ramón

> Dear All,
>
> I have a list, where several components are NULL, and I'd like to obtain
> that very same list without the NULL components (i.e., I do not want to
> unlist or otherwise loose the rest of the list structure). I can do that
> with a loop, but how could I do it without a loop?

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