[R] request: To access a particular list

[jim holtman]

what does 'str(vr)' show as the structure of the list you are creating?

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Muhammad Azam <mazam72 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear R community
> I have a problem to access particular list. I have a code given below where there is recursive process. It is not possible to run it because there are few other functions involved inside like sv, LN, RN etc.
>
> k=0; n=0; variable=c(); vr<-list()
> func <- function(data,testdata)
>    {
> .
> .
> if(......){
>                  n<<-n+1; vr[[n]] <<- variable; print(vr)
>          }else
>                {
>                        k <<- k + 1; data1 = data; data2 = testdata; s=sv(data1)[[1]]; s1=s[1]; s2=s[2]; variable[k] <<- s1
>                        data=LN(data1,s1,s2); testdata=LN(data2,s1,s2)
>
>                        func(data,testdata);
>
>                        data=RN(data1,s1,s2); testdata=RN(data2,s1,s2)
>
>                        func(data,testdata)
>                 }
>    }
>        func(m,w)
>
> Actually i made an global array to store s1 named "variable". It contains "k" values. When it enters into "if", i made a list of variable named "vr". So it will make "n" lists. If i get the print out of "vr", i will get
> [[1]]
> [1] 4
>
> [[1]]
> [1] 4
>
> [[2]]
> [1] 4 4 3
>
> [[1]]
> [1] 4
>
> [[2]]
> [1] 4 4 3
>
> [[3]]
> [1] 4 4 3
>
> [[1]]
> [1] 4
>
> [[2]]
> [1] 4 4 3
>
> [[3]]
> [1] 4 4 3
>
> [[4]]
> [1] 4 4 3
>
> But if i print(vr[[n]]), i get result like an array
> [1] 4
> [1] 4 4 3
> [1] 4 4 3
> [1] 4 4 3
> I want to access a particular list vr[[n-1]], but it gives an error
> "Error in print(vr[[n - 1]]) : attempt to select less than one element".
> How can i tackle this problem to access vr[[n-1]]. Please give some suitable suggestions.
>
> Thanks and best regards
>
> Muhammad Azam
>
>
>
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