[R] how to get the miminum value in the list

[Dennis Murphy]

Hi:

It's just an extra step:

y <- list(list(c(1,5),c(2,3,4)), list(c(1, 3, 4), c(5, 7)))
lapply(seq_len(length(y)), function(i) lapply(y[[i]], min))
[[1]]
[[1]][[1]]
[1] 1

[[1]][[2]]
[1] 2

[[2]]
[[2]][[1]]
[1] 1

[[2]][[2]]
[1] 5

unlist(lapply(seq_len(length(y)), function(i) lapply(y[[i]], min)))
[1] 1 2 1 5

HTH,
Dennis

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 8:25 AM, jiliguala <jiliguala at mail.com> wrote:
>
> but in my case, the list is a two-variable list, list[[j]][[i]]
>
> when i use
>
> lapply(list, min)
>
> it appears
> """Error in FUN(X[[1L]], ...) : invalid 'type' (list) of argument"""
>
> thanks
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