[R] with lapply() how can you retrieve the name of the object

[jim holtman]

Is this what you wanted; you would use the 'names' to get the names in
the lapply:

> lapply(names(test.list), function(x){
+     cbind(test.list[[x]], var.2=x)
+ })
[[1]]
  var.1 var.2
1     1     a
2     2     a
3     3     a
4     4     a
5     5     a

[[2]]
  var.1 var.2
1    11     b
2    12     b
3    13     b
4    14     b
5    15     b



On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Jorge Ivan Velez
<jorgeivanvelez at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Andrew,
>
> It's not the best solution but it does what you need:
>
> a <- data.frame(var.1 = 1:5)
> b <- data.frame(var.1 = 11:15)
> test.list <- list(a=a, b=b)
> res=do.call(rbind,test.list)
> res$var.2=substr(rownames(res),1,1)
> rownames(res)=NULL
> res
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Jorge
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Andrew Yee <yee at post.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
>> In the following code, I'd like to be able to create a new variable
>> containing the value of the names of the list.
>>
>>
>> a <- data.frame(var.1 = 1:5)
>> b <- data.frame(var.1 = 11:15)
>>
>> test.list <- list(a=a, b=b)
>>
>> # in this case, names(test.list) is "a" and "b"
>>
>> # and I'd like to use lapply() so that
>> # I get something that looks like
>> # var.1 var.2
>> #     1  a
>> #     2  a
>> #     3  a
>> #etc.
>>
>> new.list <- lapply(test.list, function(x) {x$var.2 <- names(x)
>>                                            x} )
>>
>>
>> # the above clearly doesn't do it.  How do you pull out the names of the
>> thing that is being lapplied?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew
>>
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