In fact I read "R pour les debutants" by Emmanuel Paradis but I didn't find the solution. Then I looked for on R-Help with no result.
Again I do aplologize for this silly question and I thank you for the solution (second one). Ptit Bleu (who won't send others silly questions in the future) jiho wrote: > > On 2007-August-31 , at 10:17 , Ptit_Bleu wrote: > >>> x<-list(LETTERS[1:5], LETTERS[10:20]) > > not sure to have understood exactly what you meant. > if you want to search for the D in the list: > lapply(x,charmatch,"D") > should get you started. > > if you just want to know the syntax to extract an element from a list > x[[1]][4] > will get you the "D". but I a sure you would have found out if you > read the manual carefully. > > maybe you should read an R introduction and practice on the examples > there rather than go straight into your own data. It would take a > week at most and is very rewarding in the long term. > An introduction in english: > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf > A nice one in French > http://www.cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Paradis-rdebuts_fr.pdf > > Cheers, > > JiHO > --- > http://jo.irisson.free.fr/ > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Problem-of-vocabulary-%3A-retrieve-element-of-a-list-of-a-list-tf4358872.html#a12423052 Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.