[R] apply function over same column of all objects in a list

[gail]

Thank you!!! But I realise I've simplified my data to the point that your
solution doesn't actually work -- not your fault, mine! My list is actually
more complicated than what I presented it to be; it's not composed of
numerical matrices but of lists, each being composed of 7 columns, the first
two of each (the ones that I am interested in, x and y) being numerical.
This is what my list really looks like (truncated):

> summary(mylist)
      Length Class   Mode
moh6  7      density list
moh7  7      density list
moh8  7      density list
...
etc.

> summary(mylist[[3]]) # I've taken number 3 as an example, but they're all
> the same
          Length Class  Mode     
x         512    -none- numeric  
y         512    -none- numeric  
bw          1    -none- numeric  
n           1    -none- numeric  
call        2    -none- call     
data.name   1    -none- character
has.na      1    -none- logical  

Any suggestion how to get the max of column y for each sub-list (moh6, moh7,
moh8 etc.), and to the max of all these individual maxes? By the way,

lapply(list1,FUN=function(x)x[,2][which.max(x[,2])])

gives me the individual maxes (for a list composed of numerical matrices),
but how do I get to the overall max?

Many thanks ...



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