Thanks Nick! That's exactly what I wanted!
The surrouding with a which was not exactly what I wanted, but
which(apply(sapply(vmat, function(currMat){
currMat[,999] != 0
}),2,any))
did do the trick.
Thank you very much!!
Cheers,
Germán
2010/12/8 Nick Sabbe <nick.sa...@ugent.be>
> Hello Germán.
>
> You probably want something like:
> sapply(vmat, function(curMat){
> curMat[,999] != 0
> })
> Or if you want the indices, just surround this with a which.
>
> HTH.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Germán Sanchis
> Sent: woensdag 8 december 2010 11:50
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: [R] problem accessing complex list data frames
>
> Hi all.
>
> I am currently attempting to build a list of sparse matrixes. That I have
> already achieved, by
>
> > vmat <- list()
> > for (i in 1:n) {
> > vmat <- c(vmat, sparseMatrix(i,j,x=data) }
>
> How I am trying to select those elements from the list where the column
> e.g.
> 999 is not null. I can do this for one of the sparse matrices with
>
> > which(vmat[[1]][,999] != 0)
>
> which returns the rows where such column is non-zero.
>
> However, my purpose is to obtain the list indices of the sparse matrices
> with such non-zero elements. I tried things like
>
> which(vmat[[]][,999] != 0)
> which(vmat[,,999] != 0)
> sapply(vmat, which, [,999] != 0)
>
> but none worked... any help will be appreciated!!
>
> Cheers,
>
> German
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