One way to answer it would be comparing:

system.time(replicate(10^5, l[[1]] ) )
system.time(replicate(10^5, l[['name']] ) )

HTH,
Jorge


On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Peng Yu <> wrote:

> I'm wondering if the speed of accessing list element by index is the
> same as that of accessing list element by name.
>
> l[[1]]
> l[['name']]
>
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