Hi Friedericksen, This function will do it. No doubt there are more elegant ways :)
rmatch <- function(x, name) { pos <- match(name, names(x)) if (!is.na(pos)) return(x[[pos]]) for (el in x) { if (class(el) == "list") { out <- getEl(el, name) if (!is.null(out)) return(out) } } } Michael On 11 November 2010 19:05, Friedericksen Hope <friedericksen.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a nested named list structure, like the following: > > x <- list( > list( > list(df1,df2) > list(df3, > list(df4,df5)) > list(df6,df7))) > > with df1...d7 as data frames. Every data frame is named. > > Is there a way to get a specific named element in x? > > so, for example, > > x[[c("df5")]] gives me the data frame 5? > > Thank you in advance! > > Best, > Friedericksen > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.