[R] Accessing named elements of a vector

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

You can convert this to list:

as.list(vx)$a

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Matthias Gondan <matthias-gondan at gmx.de> wrote:
> Dear R developers,
>
> A great R feature is that elements of vectors, lists and dataframes can have
> names:
>
> vx = c(a=1, b=2)
> lx = list(a=1, b=2)
>
> Accessing element "a" of vx: vx['a']
> Accessing element "a" of lx: lx[['a']] or lx$a
>
> Might be a matter of taste, but I like the $ very much. Unfortunately, vx$a
> is not
> functional. Would it break existing compatibility if the $ would be allowed
> to
> access elements of a vector, as well?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Matthias
>
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