I imagine this is about as brief as one can be. as.character(sapply(XXX, `[`, 1))
Michael On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Dan Abner <dan.abne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Can someone please suggest the most succinct method for extracting the > first value from each component of a list and saving the resulting vector > as a character vector? > > Thank you, > > Dan > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
