Is this what you want to do - it was not clear from your example: > x [[1]] [1] 1
[[2]] [1] 2 [[3]] [1] 3 [[4]] [1] 4 > x <- x[-3] > x [[1]] [1] 1 [[2]] [1] 2 [[3]] [1] 4 > Or maybe this: > x <- list(c( 1,2 ,3,4),c(4,5,6,7),c(8,9)) > x [[1]] [1] 1 2 3 4 [[2]] [1] 4 5 6 7 [[3]] [1] 8 9 > x[[2]] <- x[[2]][-2] > x [[1]] [1] 1 2 3 4 [[2]] [1] 4 6 7 [[3]] [1] 8 9 > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Rajasekaramya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there > > I have 386 list of vectors.In that i want to delete 23 vector in the 53 list > element. > > [[1]] > "abc" "dfg" "dft" "err" > > [[2]] > "elm" "erg"" trr" "rtt" > > similarly i have [[386]] > > now i want to delete or avoid trr in the [[2]]. > > i just tried something like this > list[-list[[53]][3]] > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/removing-a-vector-from-a-list.-tp19783565p19783565.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.