I want to use both the name and the content. Although, I could do the following thing.
for(x in names(List)) { do some thing with x do some thing with List[[x]] } However, I'd prefer something like the following if R offers such functionality. But it seems not. for(x in List) { do something with the name of x do something with x } On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Jorge Ivan Velez <jorgeivanve...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I understood correctly > for(x in names(List)) print(x) > should do what you asked. > HTH, Jorge > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Peng Yu <> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> >> wrote: >> > On Nov 20, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Peng Yu wrote: >> > >> >> There are a few version of apply() (e.g., lapply(), sapply()). I'm >> >> wondering if there is one that does not return anything but just >> >> silently apply a function to the list argument. >> >> >> >> For example, the plot function is applied to each element in 'alist'. >> >> It is redundant to return anything from apply. >> >> >> >> apply(alist,function(x){ plot each element of alist}) >> > >> > >> > >> > Just use a for() loop. If you are plotting things, the performance >> > bottleneck is not going to be in the loop. >> > >> > Sometimes, we get too anal about avoiding for() loops. >> >> Is there a way to get the name of the list in the loop body? >> >> > List=list(a='c',b='x',e='q') >> > for(x in List) { print(x) } >> [1] "c" >> [1] "x" >> [1] "q" >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.