[R] List indexing question
arun
smartpink111 at yahoo.com
Tue May 22 02:29:08 CEST 2012
Hi David,
Try
> x[[2]][1]
[1] 4
>
A.K.
----- Original Message -----
From: David Perlman <dperlman at wisc.edu>
To: r-help at r-project.org
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Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 8:07 PM
Subject: [R] List indexing question
Consider the following:
> x<-list(c(1,2,3),c(4,5,6))
> x[1]
[[1]]
[1] 1 2 3
> x[2]
[[1]]
[1] 4 5 6
So far that all seems reasonable. But now there's a problem. I'm used to python, where I would say x[2][1] and get the value 4. But I can't figure out how to do that in R.
> x[2][1]
[[1]]
[1] 4 5 6
> x[2,1]
Error in x[2, 1] : incorrect number of dimensions
I have no idea why x[2][1] returns the same thing as x[2]; that makes no sense to me at all.
What is the proper syntax for what I'm trying to do?
Thanks!
-dave----------------------------------------------------------------------
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