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 <www...@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...@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 > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > > -- > Henrique Dallazuanna > Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil > 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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