[R] Get object name inside lapply

[Sarah Goslee]

Posting in HTML makes it much harder for people to figure out your code.

Maybe this will help:

> c<-list(a=seq(1:5),b=seq(10:20))

> c[[1]]
[1] 1 2 3 4 5
> c[[2]]
 [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11

> names(c[[1]])
NULL
> names(c[[2]])
NULL

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Mohammad Tanvir Ahamed via R-help
<r-help at r-project.org> wrote:
> Hello,
> I want to get object name of a list inside lapply
>> c<-list(a=seq(1:5),b=seq(10:20))> lapply(c,names)$aNULL
> $bNULL
> Why NULL ?
> but i am expecting the names of object . Any help will be appreciated .
> I want to grab the names of object inside lapply for further process.
> Thanks .
>
>  Tanvir Ahamed
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