[R] accessing list elements

Sarah Goslee sarah.goslee at gmail.com
Tue Jul 29 19:19:38 CEST 2008


What's  v? And w? And what exactly do you want to do?

A small reproducible example would be very helpful. Without
knowing what your data look like, it's hard to make helpful
suggestions.

Sarah

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Paul Adams <pma3622 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
> I have a list which I am trying to calculate a max value.I have the list as w<-c(v[[1]][1],...v[[100]][1]). The problem I am getting is that the function max is saying the list is an "invalid
> type (list) of  argument".When I show the element v[[1]][1] it shows as $statistic,V,736.I am only wanting to use the number 736 from v[[1]][1] but am not sure how to access that number only?I believe if I just use the number then I should be able to calculate the max.
>
> Any help would be appreciated
> Paul
>

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