First, that isn't what is called a "list" in R, it is a character vector.
Second, to get what you want, try > sort(unique(x)) [1] "Atrazine" "Atrazine desethyl" "Bentazone" [4] "Epoxiconazol" "Fenpropimorph" "Metolachlor" [7] "Simazine" On 19/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know how to extract the arguments from a list : > > For example, I have a list of charchacter x > x<- > c("Bentazone","Atrazine","Epoxiconazol","Metolachlor","Epoxiconazol","Atrazine > desethyl","Fenpropimorph","Epoxiconazol","Metolachlor","Simazine","Atrazine > desethyl","Epoxiconazol","Atrazine > desethyl","Atrazine","Epoxiconazol","Metolachlor","Epoxiconazol","Atrazine > desethyl","Fenpropimorph","Epoxiconazol","Metolachlor","Simazine") > > and I am searching for a (basic) function which would return arguments of > the list x, aphabeticaly reordered like this : > ("Atrazine","Atrazine > desethyl","Bentazone","Epoxiconazol","Fenpropimorph","Metolachlor","Simazine"). > > > Can anyone help me ? > > > Thanks by advance > > Jessica > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. > -- ================================= David Barron Said Business School University of Oxford Park End Street Oxford OX1 1HP ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.