Hi Santosh,

One way would be

> sapply(d, "[", 1)
[1] "20110405" "20110405" "20110405" "20110405" "20110405" "20110405"

HTH,
Jorge


On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:14 AM, santosh <> wrote:

> Hello Group,
>
> Is there a simpler way to get data out of a list object? (like in data
> frame without using the apply functions)
>
> I have the following dataset
>
> > dput(d)
> list(c("20110405", "092102"), c("20110405", "092538"), c("20110405",
> "093458"), c("20110405", "101124"), c("20110405", "102041"),
>    c("20110405", "103659"))
>
> I extracted my data like this:
>
> getDate <- function(x)(unlist(x[[1]]))
>
> unlist(lapply(d, getDate))
> [1] "20110405" "20110405" "20110405" "20110405" "20110405" "20110405"
>
> Isn't there an easier way to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Santosh
>
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