Thank you for the help, I knew it could be done with a member of the apply family. I struggle with apply stuff though, its not always intuitive for me with these functions.
Cheers, JR ________________________________ From: Sarah Goslee [via R] [mailto:ml-node+s789695n414453...@n4.nabble.com] Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 6:44 PM To: ROLL Josh F Subject: Re: Summarizing elements of a list How about: lapply(Version1_, subset, subset=c(TRUE, FALSE)) or sapply() depending on what you want the result to look like. Thanks for the reproducible example. Sarah On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:17 PM, LCOG1 <[hidden email]</user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4144538&i=0>> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I looked around the list for a while but couldn't find a solution to my > problem. I am storing some results to a simulation in a list and for each > element i have two separate vectors(is that what they are called, correct my > vocab if necessary). See below > > Version1_<-list() > for(i in 1:5){ > Version1_[[i]]<-list(First=rnorm(1),Second=rnorm(1)) > } > > What I want is to put all of the elements' 'First' vectors into a single > list to box plot. But whats a more elegant solution to the below? > > c(Version1_[[1]]$First,Version1_[[2]]$First,Version1_[[3]]$First,Version1_[[4]]$First,Version1_[[5]]$First) > > since i have 50 or more simulations this is impractical and sloppy. Do I > need to store my data differently or is their a solution on the back end? > Thanks all. > > Josh > -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ [hidden email]</user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4144538&i=1> 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. ________________________________ If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Summarizing-elements-of-a-list-tp4142479p4144538.html To unsubscribe from Summarizing elements of a list, click here<http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_code&node=4142479&code=anJvbGxAbGNvZy5vcmd8NDE0MjQ3OXwtMTcwMzUwNjI0Mg==>. NAML<http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.InstantMailNamespace&breadcrumbs=instant+emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml> -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Summarizing-elements-of-a-list-tp4142479p4148568.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. [[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.
