[R] Calling a list element

[Erik Iverson]

The key is that "[" is a function.

So, you have a list, you want to apply a function to a list, and return 
a vector,  think sapply.

sapply(strsplit(as.character(Elecciones$Municipios),"\\."), "[", 1)



Luis Felipe Parra wrote:
> Hello, i have the following list
> strsplit(as.character(Elecciones$Municipios),"\\.")
> [[1]]
> [1] "ANTIOQUIA" "ABEJORRAL"
> [[2]]
> [1] "META"    "ACACIAS"
> [[3]]
> [1] "CASANARE" "AGUAZUL"
> [[4]]
> and I would like to make a vector of the first element of each of the list
> items, in this case ANTIOQUIA, META, CASANARE, etc . Do you know how can I
> do this?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Felipe Parra
> 
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