Sarah's statement is correct. So is yours. They are not contradictory, and I believe Sarah's point was that the OP needed to learn the appropriate syntax.
-- Bert Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics (650) 467-7374 "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge is certainly not wisdom." Clifford Stoll On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 7:56 AM, Sven E. Templer <sven.temp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30 March 2015 at 16:47, Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> colnames(e) <- paste0('pop',1:12) >> >> isn't a function and doesn't return anything. >> > > But > function(e){colnames(e) <- paste0('pop', 1:2)} > is a function and it returns something (the last evaluated expression! - > here the paste0 return): > >> mylist2 <- lapply(mylist, function(e){colnames(e) <- paste0('pop', 1:2)}) >> mylist2 > [[1]] > [1] "pop1" "pop2" > > [[2]] > [1] "pop1" "pop2" > > [[3]] > [1] "pop1" "pop2" > > from ?return: > > If the end of a function is reached without calling return, the value of > the last evaluated expression is returned. > >> >> > mylist <- list( >> + data.frame(a = runif(10), b = runif(10)), >> + data.frame(c = runif(10), d = runif(10)), >> + data.frame(e = runif(10), f = runif(10))) >> > mylist2 <- lapply(mylist, function(e){colnames(e) <- paste0('pop', 1:2); >> e}) >> > colnames(mylist2[[1]]) >> [1] "pop1" "pop2" >> >> Sarah >> >> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Vikram Chhatre >> <crypticline...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> summary(mygenfreqt) >> > Length Class Mode >> > dat1.str 59220 -none- numeric >> > dat2.str 59220 -none- numeric >> > dat3.str 59220 -none- numeric >> > >> >> head(mylist[[1]]) >> > 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 >> > 12 >> > L0001.1 0.60 0.500 0.325 0.675 0.600 0.500 0.500 0.375 0.550 0.475 0.350 >> > 0.275 >> > L0001.2 0.40 0.500 0.675 0.325 0.400 0.500 0.500 0.625 0.450 0.525 0.650 >> > 0.725 >> > >> > I want to change 1:12 to pop1:pop12 >> > >> > mylist<- lapply(mylist, function(e) colnames(e) <- paste0('pop',1:12)) >> > >> > What this is doing is replacing the data frames with just names >> > pop1:pop12. I just want to replace the column labels. >> > >> > Thanks for any suggestions. >> > >> >> -- >> Sarah Goslee >> http://www.functionaldiversity.org >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.