[R] remove text from nested list

[William Dunlap]

If your matrices are at various depths in the list, try rapply().  E.g.,

>  L <- list( A = list( a1 = matrix(c("AAA","AB", "AAB","AC"),2,2),
a2=c("AAx")), list(B = c("AAb1AAA","AAb2")))
> str(L)
List of 2
 $ A:List of 2
  ..$ a1: chr [1:2, 1:2] "AAA" "AB" "AAB" "AC"
  ..$ a2: chr "AAx"
 $  :List of 1
  ..$ B: chr [1:2] "AAb1AAA" "AAb2"
> str(rapply(L, function(x)gsub("A+", "-", x), how="replace"))
List of 2
 $ A:List of 2
  ..$ a1: chr [1:2, 1:2] "-" "-B" "-B" "-C"
  ..$ a2: chr "-x"
 $  :List of 1
  ..$ B: chr [1:2] "-b1-" "-b2"
> # only apply f to matrices in the list:
> str(rapply(L, function(x)gsub("A+", "-", x), classes="matrix",
how="replace"))
List of 2
 $ A:List of 2
  ..$ a1: chr [1:2, 1:2] "-" "-B" "-B" "-C"
  ..$ a2: chr "AAx"
 $  :List of 1
  ..$ B: chr [1:2] "AAb1AAA" "AAb2"


Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 6:04 PM, Ek Esawi <esawiek using gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All—
>
> I have a list that contains multiple sub-lists and each sub-list
> contains multiple  sub(sub-lists), each of the sub(sub-lists) is made
> up of matrices of text. I want to replace some of the text in some
> parts in the matrices on the list. I tried gsub and stringr,
> str_remove, but nothing seems to work
>
> I tried:
>
> lapply(mylist, function(x) lapply(x, function(y)
> gsub("[0-9][0-9]/[0-9[0-9].*com","",y)))
> lapply(mylist, function(x) str_remove(x,"[0-9][0-9]/[0-9[0-9].*com"))
>
> Any help is greatly apprercaited.
>
>
>
> mylist—this is just an example
>
> [[1]]
> [[1]][[1]]
> [[1]][[1]][[1]]
> [,1]  [,2]  [,3]  [,4] [,5]
> [1,] "12/30 12/30"  "ABABABABABAB"  "8.00"
> [2,] "01/02 01/02"  "AAAAAAAAAAAA”.   “99"
> [3,] "01/02 01/02"  "CACACACACACC” "55.97"
>
> [[1]][[1]][[2]]
> [,1]  [,2]
> [1,] "12/30 12/30" "DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD” “29"
> [2,] "12/30 12/30"  :GGGGGGGGGGGGGGG” “333”
>
> [[1]][[2]]
> [[1]][[2]][[1]]
> [,1]  [,2]  [,3] [,4]  [,5]
> [1,]  "01/02 01/02" "ThankYou" “23”
> [2,] "01/02 01/02"  "Standard data"  "251"
>
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