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Assume that you have a list and you want to get the n-th element of each component or generally to subset the list. You can use the command sapply(list, "[", c(1,2,3,..))
Let’s see this in practice.
mylist<-list(id<-1:10,
gender<-c("m","m","m","f","f","f","m","f","f","f"),
amt<-c(5,20,30,10,20,50,5,20,10,30)
)
mylist
Output:
> mylist [[1]] [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 [[2]] [1] "m" "m" "m" "f" "f" "f" "m" "f" "f" "f" [[3]] [1] 5 20 30 10 20 50 5 20 10 30
Let’s say that we want to get the 3rd and 6th element of the list:
sapply(mylist, "[", c(3,6))
Output:
[,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] "3" "m" "30" [2,] "6" "f" "50"
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