Message-ID: <BANLkTikkq0fsgzvk4=oN=DiKWjC5m0ZrEQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2011-04-15T18:22:19Z
From: Joshua Wiley
Subject: Extract information from the names of a list within lapply
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=CXz92Q-TiiQ78m-ucA2K1X=hsYg@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Jun,
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Jun Shen <jun.shen.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I want to loop over a list through lapply and at the same time I want to
> extract some information from the names of the list elements. lapply does
> not seem to carry the names. Is there anyway to access the names of a list
> within lapply? Thanks.
Not in the way you are probably trying to do it, but consider:
## 1 (what you are probably doing)
lapply(mtcars, mean)
## 2 (an alternative)
lapply(colnames(mtcars), function(x) {cat(x, fill = TRUE); mean(mtcars[, x])})
The main downside of #2 is that it takes more code, and the resulting
output is not named. However, it gives you all the flexibility you
need.
HTH,
Josh
>
> Jun
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Joshua Wiley
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