[R] Managing a list with a list

[Uwe Ligges]

abunn at mymail.msu.montana.edu wrote:

> OK. Another amateur question.
> 
> I have a list with attributes on pine trees, like the stem's location, a logical value set to T if it's alive, some parameters for growth, diameter, etc. The tree list has another list in it which is a new data type for me. 
> 
> I want to make a new list that retains all the live trees. 
> That is where Living == T.
> 
> Here's the summary of the list:
> 
> 
>>summary(tf)
> 
>        Length Class  Mode   
> id     10     -none- numeric
> x      10     -none- numeric
> y      10     -none- numeric
> A      10     -none- numeric
> NegB   10     -none- numeric
> K      10     -none- numeric
> Age    10     -none- numeric
> DBH    10     -none- numeric
> Living 10     -none- logical
> pSeed  10     -none- list   
> TCI    10     -none- numeric
> STA    10     -none- numeric
> 
> Here are the living trees.
> 
> 
>>tf$Living
> 
>  [1] FALSE  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE  TRUE  TRUE
> 
> So, here are the ids of the trees I want to retain.
> 
> 
>>tf$id[tf$Living == T]



  lapply(tf, "[", tf$Living)

selects (by indexing with []) those elements from each element of tf, 
where tf$Living is TRUE.

Uwe Ligges



> [1]  2  3  4  5  6  7  9 10
> 
> Same with the easting coordinates.
> 
> 
>>tf$x[tf$Living == T] #tf[[2]][tf$Living == T]
> 
> [1] 28 35 18 34 36 92  3 47
> 
> 
> But when I try to keep the whole list minus the dead trees it returns a list with all the trees living and dead (as I'm sure it is supposed to):
> 
> tf[tf$Living == T]
> 
> What am I doing wrong? I'm happy to RTFM, but if the manual in question is section 3.4 of R-lang then I'm still going to need help. I can break it all apart and then concatonate a new list but that seems heavy handed.
> 
> Thanks, Andy
> 
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