[R] Extracting from a list XXXX

[R. Michael Weylandt]

I imagine this is about as brief as one can be.

as.character(sapply(XXX, `[`, 1))

Michael

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Dan Abner <dan.abner99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Can someone please suggest the most succinct method for extracting the
> first value from each component of a list and saving the resulting vector
> as a character vector?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Dan
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