Hallo, good idea it is working. A new question appears: How can I display the entries in a table like
name wife no.children child.ages Fred Mary 3 4,7,9 Barney Liz 2 3,5 Thanks, Corinna -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Michael T. Mader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 26. März 2007 15:32 An: Schmitt, Corinna; r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Betreff: Re: [R] Listing function Lst <- list() Lst[[1]] <- list(name="Fred", wife="Mary", no.children=3, cild.ages=c(4,7,9)) Lst[[2]] <- list(name="Barney", wife="Liz", no.children=2, cild.ages=c(3,5)) I.e. a list of lists Regards Michael Schmitt, Corinna wrote: > Hallo, > > I build a list by the following way: > > Lst = list(name="Fred", wife="Mary", no.children=3, cild.ages=c(4,7,9)) > > I know how I can extract the information one by one. But now I want to > add a new entry which looks like > > name="Barney", wife="Liz", no.children=2, cild.ages=c(3,5) > > How can I add this information to Lst without overwriting the first > entry? > How can I then extract the corresponding information if I have both > entries in Lst? > > Thanks for helping, > > Corinna > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Michael T. Mader Institute of Stem Cell Research GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1 D-85764 Neuherberg 0049-89-3187-3683 Program testing can be quite effective for showing the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence. E. W. Dijkstra ______________________________________________ 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.