Thanks a lot Tony
this explains a lot.
I am not aware to have read such a good explanation about this issue
before. I would suggest to add it to the FAQs.
Rainer
Tony Plate wrote:
> I suspect you are not thinking about the list and the
> subsetting/extraction operators in the right way.
>
> A list contains a number of components.
>
> To get a subset of the list, use the '[' operator. The subset can
> contain zero or more components of the list, and it is a list itself.
> So, if x is a list, then x[2] is a list containing a single component.
>
> To extract a component from the list, use the '[[' operator. You can
> only extract one component at a time. If you supply a vector index with
> more than one element, it will index recursively.
>
>> x <- list(1,2:3,letters[1:3])
>> x
> [[1]]
> [1] 1
>
> [[2]]
> [1] 2 3
>
> [[3]]
> [1] "a" "b" "c"
>
>> # a subset of the list
>> x[2:3]
> [[1]]
> [1] 2 3
>
> [[2]]
> [1] "a" "b" "c"
>
>> # a list with one component:
>> x[2]
> [[1]]
> [1] 2 3
>
>> # the second component itself
>> x[[2]]
> [1] 2 3
>> # recursive indexing
>> x[[c(2,1)]]
> [1] 2
>> x[[c(3,2)]]
> [1] "b"
>>
>
> Rainer M Krug wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I use the following code and it stores the results of density() in the
>> list dr:
>>
>> dens <- function(run) { density( positions$X[positions$run==run], bw=3,
>> cut=-2 ) }
>> dr <- lapply(1:5, dens)
>>
>> but the results are stored in dr[[i]] and not dr[i], i.e. plot(dr[[1]])
>> works, but plot([1]) doesn't.
>>
>> Is there any way that I can store them in dr[i]?
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>>
>>
>
--
Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys. (Germany), MSc Conservation
Biology (UCT)
Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology
University of Stellenbosch
Matieland 7602
South Africa
Tel: +27 - (0)72 808 2975 (w)
Fax: +27 - (0)21 808 3304
Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
______________________________________________
R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
