[R] lapply and list indexing basics (after realizing I wasn't previously subscribed...sorry)

[Dgnn]

I have split my original dataframe to generate a list of dataframes each of
which has 3 columns of factors and a 4th column of numeric data. 
I would like to use lapply to apply the fitdistr() function to only the 4th
column (x$isi) of the dataframes in the list. 

Is there a way to do this or am I misusing lapply? 

As a second solution I tried splitting only the numeric data column to yield
a list of vectors and then using 
lapply(myList, fitdistr, densfun='gamma',start=list(scale=1, shape=2)) 
returns the error: 
Error in optim(x = c(305, 290, 283, 363, 331, 293, 304, 312, 286, 339,  : 
non-finite finite-difference value [2] 
In addition: Warning message: 
In dgamma(x, shape, scale, log) : NaNs produced 

However, if I use fitdistr(myList[[i]]) on each element of the list, there
are no errors. 

Thanks in advance for any comments. 

-jason
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