I have a list that is made of lists of varying length. I wish to create a
new vector that contains the last element of each list. So far I have used
sapply to determine the length of each list, but I'm stymied at the part
where I index the list to make a new vector containing only the last item
of each list
mylist = list(c(1,2,3),c("cat","dog"),c("x","y","z","zz")) # Create
list
last <- sapply(mylist,length) # Make vector with list lengths
last_only <- mylist[[1:length(mylist)]][last] # Crash and burn trying to
make new vector with last items!
How do I do this last step?
Dr. Seth W. Bigelow
Biologist, USDA-FS Pacific Southwest Research Station
1731 Research Park Drive, Davis California
sbige...@fs.fed.us / ph. 530 759 1718
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