Linlin, Thanks! That works great!
Tim Tim Clark Department of Zoology University of Hawaii --- On Sat, 11/28/09, Linlin Yan <yanlinli...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Linlin Yan <yanlinli...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [R] Removing objects from a list based on nrow > To: "Tim Clark" <mudiver1...@yahoo.com> > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Date: Saturday, November 28, 2009, 10:43 PM > Try these: > sapply(lst, nrow) # get row numbers > which(sapply(lst, nrow) < 3) # get the index of rows > which has less than 3 rows > lst <- lst[-which(sapply(lst, nrow) < 3)] # remove > the rows from the list > > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Tim Clark <mudiver1...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > Dear List, > > > > I have a list containing data frames of various > numbers of rows. I need to remove any data frame that has > less than 3 rows. For example: > > > > > df1<-data.frame(letter=c("A","B","C","D","E"),number=c(1,2,3,4,5)) > > df2<-data.frame(letter=c("A","B"),number=c(1,2)) > > > df3<-data.frame(letter=c("A","B","C","D","E"),number=c(1,2,3,4,5)) > > > df4<-data.frame(letter=c("A","B","C","D","E"),number=c(1,2,3,4,5)) > > > > lst<-list(df1,df2,df3,df4) > > > > How can I determine that the second object (df2) has > less than 3 rows and remove it from the list? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Tim > > > > > > > > > > Tim Clark > > Department of Zoology > > University of Hawaii > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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.