In the help page of ?tapply it says that the first argument (X) is "an atomic object, typically a vector."
However, tapply seems to be able to handle list objects. For example: ################### l <- as.list(1:10) is.atomic(l) # FALSE index <- c(rep(1,5),rep(2,5)) tapply(l,index,unlist) > tapply(l,index,unlist) $`1` [1] 1 2 3 4 5 $`2` [1] 6 7 8 9 10 ################### Hence, does it mean a list an atomic object? (which I thought it wasn't) or is the help for tapply needs updating? (or some third option I'm missing?) Thanks. ----------------Contact Details:------------------------------------------------------- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.