Hi Kang,

Try either

lapply(x, "[", 8:14)   # Erik Iverson's method

or

lapply(x, function(x) x[8:14])

HTH,
Jorge


On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Kang Min <> wrote:

> Hmm x[8:14] didn't work. Yes Iverson's method worked, I wanted the
> whole list, with 7 elements in each vector.
>
> Now I want the whole list as well, but with the 8th to 14th element.
>
>
> On May 30, 7:47 pm, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > On May 29, 2010, at 11:37 PM, Kang Min wrote:
> >
> > > What if I want to select the 8th to 14th element of the list? I tried
> > > to use "[" again, but it doesn't work.
> >
> > x[8:14]
> >
> > (And I could not get Iverson's earlier method to work properly on a
> > long list. It just returned the whole list. Did it work properly for
> > you? )
> >
> > --
> > David.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >>>> "[" is a function, and you want to use it on each element of the
> > >>>> list,
> > >>>> so...
> >
> > >>>> lapply(x, "[", c(1:7))
> >
> > >>> and the call to c() is of course not necessary, since ":" will
> > >>> generate a vector.
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