[R] Get object name inside lapply

[Uwe Ligges]

On 25.02.2016 22:27, Mohammad Tanvir Ahamed via R-help wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to get object name of a list inside lapply
>
>> c<-list(a=seq(1:5),b=seq(10:20))
>> lapply(c,names)
> $a
> NULL
>
> $b
> NULL
>
> Why NULL ?

Why should it? seq(1:5) has no names, nor has seq(10:20).

Best,
Uwe Ligges





>
> but i am expecting the names of object . Any help will be appreciated .
>
> I want to grab the names of object inside lapply for further process.
>
> Thanks .
>
>
> Tanvir Ahamed
> Göteborg, Sweden  |  mashranga at yahoo.com
>
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