[R] Names of list members in a plot using sapply

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Fri Oct 30 12:25:39 CET 2009


sapply(names(list1), function(.data.){
    with(list1[[.data.]], plot(x, y, type='l', main=paste("Graphic of", .data)))
})

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Kenneth Roy Cabrera Torres
<krcabrer at une.net.co> wrote:
> Hi R users:
>
> I got this code to generate a graphic for each member of a lists.
>
> list1<-list(A=data.frame(x=c(1,2),y=c(5,6)),B=data.frame(x=c(8,9),y=c(12,6)))
> names1<-names(list1)
> sapply(1:length(list1),function(i)
> with(list1[[i]],plot(x,y,type="l",main=paste("Graphic of",names1[i]))))
>
> Is there a more elegant solution for not to use two separate lists?
>
> I would like to just use
>
> sapply(list1, somePlotfunction)
>
> and plot for each graphic in the title have the name of the member of
> the list.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Kenneth
>
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