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Message-ID: <tenqitkrlmgj109shu0ceeasoeb2evt85d@4ax.com>
Date: 2001-06-18T01:50:40Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: extraction from a list of vectors
In-Reply-To: <1BDB01B13696D411BD6200D0B7C854EA22F9D9@chi-prd-mail1.xcaliber.com>

On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 17:10:26 -0500, you wrote:

>	Hi , 
>	I know this should be easy, but I haven't figured out a fast way to
>do it. 
>	I have a list of vectors: mylist <- list(vector1, vector2, ...,
>vectorN). 
>	(The vectors are made of integers. They vary in length from about 1
>to 10). 
>	I also have a vector of indices: myidx <- c( i1, i2, ..., iN). 
>	From these I'd like to make this: newvector <- c(vector1[i1],
>vector2[i2], ..., vectorN[iN]). 

I don't know if this is fast or not, but I think it gives the result
you want:

unlist(sapply(myidx,function(x) mylist[[x]]))

Duncan Murdoch

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