Hi Arun:
Exactly. That's exactly what I'm looking for!
On 2012-11-12, at 5:55 PM, arun kirshna [via R] wrote:

> Hi, 
> Seems like there was a typo in "mylist" 
> mylist<-list(df1=data.frame(a=seq(1,10,1), c=seq(1,10,1), q10=rep('favour', 10)), df2=data.frame(a=seq(1,10,1), b=seq(15,24,1), q14=rep('favour', 10))) 
> Are you looking for something like this? 
>  lapply(mylist,function(x) x[colnames(x)%in% c("a","q10","q14")]) 
> #$df1 
>   #  a    q10 
> #1   1 favour 
> #2   2 favour 
> #3   3 favour 
> #4   4 favour 
> #5   5 favour 
> #6   6 favour 
> #7   7 favour 
> #8   8 favour 
> #9   9 favour 
> #10 10 favour 
> 
> #$df2 
>   #  a    q14 
> #1   1 favour 
> #2   2 favour 
> #3   3 favour 
> #4   4 favour 
> #5   5 favour 
> #6   6 favour 
> #7   7 favour 
> #8   8 favour 
> #9   9 favour 
> #10 10 favour 
> A.K. 
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