[R] mean from list

[Peter Dalgaard]

statistical.model at googlemail.com writes:

> hi all,
> I have a simple problem that i am not able to solve. I've a list called
> datalist with the following structure:
> 
> [...]
> 
> [[10]]
> [[10]]$a
> 
>      -1  0  1
>   -1 31  5  2
>   0   6  7  5
>   1   1  7 36
> 
> [[10]]$b
> 
>      -1  0  1
>   -1 31  5  2
>   0   6  7  5
>   1   1  7 36
> 
> [[10]]$c
> [1] 0.855
> 
> [[10]]$d
> [1] 0.855
> 
> [...]
> 
> with [[1]] ... [[100]]. How can i get the mean value of datalist[[x]]$d,
> where x represents all elements from 1 to 1000 ?

I'd try something like

mean(sapply(x,"[[","d"))
 

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