Re: [R] Using lapply and list names not available

2008-02-05 Thread john seers (IFR)
and list names not available If you must use lapply then do it over the names rather than the data: lapply(names(people), function(nm) plot(1:10, people[[nm]], main = nm)) On Feb 5, 2008 11:47 AM, john seers (IFR) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Gabor > > Thanks for th

Re: [R] Using lapply and list names not available

2008-02-05 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
e lapply to plot the > data (or whatever) and be able to slap a label on it so I can keep track > of what I am doing. > > Regards > > John Seers > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 February 2008

Re: [R] Using lapply and list names not available

2008-02-05 Thread john seers (IFR)
plot the data (or whatever) and be able to slap a label on it so I can keep track of what I am doing. Regards John Seers -Original Message- From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 February 2008 16:17 To: john seers (IFR) Cc: R Help Subject: Re: [R] Using lapply and

Re: [R] Using lapply and list names not available

2008-02-05 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
9 Fax: +32/(0)16/337015 Web: http://med.kuleuven.be/biostat/ http://www.student.kuleuven.be/~m0390867/dimitris.htm - Original Message - From: "john seers (IFR)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "R Help" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 5:05

Re: [R] Using lapply and list names not available

2008-02-05 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
The problem is your data is in wide format and you want it in long format. See ?reshape and also see the reshape package. In your example, ?stack is sufficient: library(lattice) xyplot(values ~ seq_along(values) | ind, data = stack(people)) On Feb 5, 2008 11:05 AM, john seers (IFR) <[EMAIL PRO

[R] Using lapply and list names not available

2008-02-05 Thread john seers (IFR)
Hello All Using lapply and ending up with lists of lists I often end up in the position of not having the names of the list passed by lapply. So, if I am doing something like a plot, and I would like the title to reflect which plot it is, I cannot easily do it. So I find myself doing some unstru