Thanks for your help! I combined the above two to get the following, which seems to work (if somewhat inelegant):
int.List<-unlist(lapply(lmList, function(x) {coef(x)[1]}),use.names=FALSE) lmList is my list of lm objects. -Allen David Winsemius wrote: > > > On Jan 6, 2009, at 1:50 PM, AllenL wrote: > >> >> 1. I have a list of lm (linear model) objects. Is it possible to >> select, >> through subscripts, a particular element (say, the intercept) from >> all the >> models? I've tried something like this: > > ?coef > if your list of models is ml, then perhaps something like this > partially tested idea: > > lapply(ml, function(x) coef(x)[1] ) > > This is what I get using that formulation an available logistic model: > > > coef(lr.TC_HDL_BMI)[1] > Intercept > -6.132448 > > >> >> >> List[[1:length(list)]][1] >> All members of the list are similar. My goal is to have a list of the >> intercepts and lists of other estimated parameters. Is it better to >> convert >> to a matrix? How to do this? >> >> 2. Connected to this, how do I convert from a list back to a vector? >> This >> problem arose from using "split" to split a vector by a factor, then >> selecting a subset of this (ie. length>10), leaving me with subset >> list of >> my original. Unsplit(newList, factor) doesn't work, presumably due >> to my >> removal of some values. Thoughts? > > ?unlist > > > ll <- list(1,2,3,4) > > ll > [[1]] > [1] 1 > > [[2]] > [1] 2 > > [[3]] > [1] 3 > > [[4]] > [1] 4 > > > unlist(ll) > [1] 1 2 3 4 > > str(unlist(ll)) > num [1:4] 1 2 3 4 > > is.vector(unlist(ll)) > [1] TRUE > > -- > David Winsemius >> >> >> Thanks! >> -Allen >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Two-Noobie-questions-tp21316554p21316554.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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Two-Noobie-questions-tp21316554p21317630.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.