How do I parse an identifier of a list component, e.g. mylist$mycomponent or mylist[[1]] ? Parse does not do the job, e.g. parse(text="mylist$mycomponent") returns an expression with just one term, instead of "mylist", "$", "mycomponent". What I need is a way to extract the list name (e.g. "mylist"), given an identifier of a component. Splitting the string is possible, but I think there are better solutions. gs. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Parsing for list components
2 messages · G. Sawitzki, Peter Dalgaard
"G. Sawitzki" <gs at statlab.uni-heidelberg.de> writes:
How do I parse an identifier of a list component, e.g. mylist$mycomponent or mylist[[1]] ? Parse does not do the job, e.g. parse(text="mylist$mycomponent") returns an expression with just one term, instead of "mylist", "$", "mycomponent". What I need is a way to extract the list name (e.g. "mylist"), given an identifier of a component. Splitting the string is possible, but I think there are better solutions.
parse() *does* do the job:
parse(text="mylist$mycomponent")[[1]][[2]]
mylist or maybe
as.character(parse(text="mylist$mycomponent")[[1]][[2]])
[1] "mylist" I.e., you just need to pick the result apart afterwards.
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