You get the number of list elements with length(D), the dimensions of M1 with dim(M1)
see help with: ?dim ?length Hope this helps... >I have created a list of "matrices" using sapply or lapply and wish to >extract each of the "matrices" as a matrix. Some of them are 2x2, 3x3, etc. >I can do this one at a time as: >M1<-as.matrix(D[[1]]) >How can repeat this process for an unknown number of entries in the list? In >other words, how shall I index M1? >Diana -- Friedrich Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel.: +49 6221 737474 Tel.: +49 163 7374744 ______________________________________________ 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.