Hello,

I was in a hurry at the time, when I replied.
You could do one thing: extract sublist using:
list4 <- list(mango, banana, pineapple) 
b1<-list()
 for(i in 1:3){
 b1[[i]]<-list()
 b1[[i]]<-list4[[i]][1]
 }
 b1
b<-list()
 for(i in 1:3){
 b[[i]]<-list()
 b[[i]]<-lapply(b1[[i]][[1]],FUN=function(x)x[which.max(x)])
 }

b2<-data.frame(do.call(rbind,b))
row.names(b2)<-c("mango","banana","pineapple")
 b2 
 apply(b2,2, function(x) x[which.max(x)]) 
$coconut
$coconut$banana
[1] 18

I guess, this is much better than calling individual sublists.
A.K.




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