[R] fast way to check an object is a member of a list?

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Francisco" == Francisco J Molina <fjmolina at lbl.gov>
>>>>>     on Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:38:46 -0800 writes:

    Francisco> Is there any fast way to check that an object is
    Francisco> a member of a list?

I guess you want to check if a list has a certain *named* component?
Assume

   mylist <- list(ab = .., .....)

Then, you can use

   if(!is.null(mylist $ mycomp)) { .........}

or (not quite equivalently!)

   if("mycomp" %in% names(mylist)) { .........}

Does this answer the (little vague) question?
Regards,
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