As noted, this is not the place to ask about dplyr but the answer you may want is perhaps straight R.
If you have a list called weekdays and you know you o not want to take the fifth, then indexing with -5 removes it: > weekdays <- list("Sun", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat") > weekdays[-5] [[1]] [1] "Sun" [[2]] [1] "Mon" [[3]] [1] "Tue" [[4]] [1] "Wed" [[5]] [1] "Fri" [[6]] [1] "Sat" In general, any function you use to get one or more indices can be used sort of like this: > odder <- seq(from=1, to=length(weekdays), by=2) > weekdays[-odder] [[1]] [1] "Mon" [[2]] [1] "Wed" [[3]] [1] "Fri" So do you need to really search for dplyr functionality, such as how to take all but some in a list in a pipeline. use the odd function `[` to access the subset. > weekdays %>% `[`(-5) [[1]] [1] "Sun" [[2]] [1] "Mon" [[3]] [1] "Tue" [[4]] [1] "Wed" [[5]] [1] "Fri" [[6]] [1] "Sat" > weekdays %>% `[`(odder) [[1]] [1] "Sun" [[2]] [1] "Tue" [[3]] [1] "Thu" [[4]] [1] "Sat" -----Original Message----- From: R-help <r-help-boun...@r-project.org> On Behalf Of Christopher W. Ryan via R-help Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2021 4:40 PM To: R-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] the opposite of pluck() in purrr I've just learned about pluck() and chuck() in the purrr package. Very cool! As I understand it, they both will return one element of a list, either by name or by [[]] index, or even "first" or "last" I was hoping to find a way to return all *but* one specified element of a list. Speaking loosely, pluck(-1) or pluck(!1) or !pluck(1), but none of those of course work. Thinking of English language, I had hopes for chuck(1) as in "chuck element 1 away, leaving the rest" but that's now how it works. Any tidyverse-centric ways to return all except one specified element of a list? Thanks. --Chris Ryan ______________________________________________ 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.