I have a list of (same type) lists. I want to retrieve the same entries of all my objects in the outer list. eg: a<-list("2006-01-23"=list(r=5,s=c(7,12,12,11,4)), "2006-01-24"=list(r=6,s=c(3,8,8,9,12))) a[][["s"]] gives NULL, but I am looking for all the s-vectors in order to plot and compare them (e changes to f in a day). Thomas