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Message-ID: <9F092C320C170B4793FC721A68E0EB890FAB4761@CMS12-01.campus.gla.ac.uk>
Date: 2017-06-15T15:41:14Z
From: Massoud Boroujerdi
Subject: is.null(mylist[1]) and is.null(mylist$a) returns different	values
In-Reply-To: <20170615113300.30538@web005.roc2.bluetie.com>

I think look at the manual

Is.null(mylist[[1]])

Will work

-----Original Message-----
From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of ce
Sent: 15 June 2017 16:33
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] is.null(mylist[1]) and is.null(mylist$a) returns different values

Hi

I have a list :

mylist <- list( a = NULL, b = 1, c = 2 )

> mylist[1]
$a
NULL

> is.null(mylist[1])
[1] FALSE

> is.null(mylist$a)
[1] TRUE

why? I need to use mylist[1]
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