"[" is a function, and you want to use it on each element of the list, so...lapply(x, "[", c(1:7))
and the call to c() is of course not necessary, since ":" will generate a vector. ______________________________________________ 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.