Thanks, Joshua and Henrique.

Henrique's solution is very interesting. Could you explain a bit more? What
does this grammar mean?

match.call()[[2]][[3]]

Jun

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Henrique Dallazuanna <wwwhsd@gmail.com>wrote:

> Try this:
>
> lapply(mtcars, function(.)names(mtcars)[match.call()[[2]][[3]]])
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Jun Shen <jun.shen.ut@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear list,
> >
> > I want to loop over a list through lapply and at the same time I want to
> > extract some information from the names of the list elements. lapply does
> > not seem to carry the names. Is there anyway to access the names of a
> list
> > within lapply? Thanks.
> >
> > Jun
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