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] ______________________________________________ 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.