If you are using the list as simply a collection of data frames a simple
example to accomplish what you are describing is this:

data(iris)
data(mtcars)
y=list(iris, mtcars)
#return Sepal.Length column from first data frame in list
#list[[number of list component]][number of column]
y[[1]][1]

Cheers,



On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Jana Makedonska <jmakedonska@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I would like to know if I can call one of the columns of a list, to use it
> as a variable in a function.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice!
>
> Jana
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