I think look at the manual

Is.null(mylist[[1]])

Will work

-----Original Message-----
From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of ce
Sent: 15 June 2017 16:33
To: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: [R] is.null(mylist[1]) and is.null(mylist$a) returns different values

Hi

I have a list :

mylist <- list( a = NULL, b = 1, c = 2 )

> mylist[1]
$a
NULL

> is.null(mylist[1])
[1] FALSE

> is.null(mylist$a)
[1] TRUE

why? I need to use mylist[1]
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