[R] $ subset operator behavior in lapply

[Jeff Newmiller]

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On October 27, 2022 2:31:47 AM PDT, Hilmar Berger <hilmar.berger using gmx.de> wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I'm a little bit surprised by the behavior of the $ operator when used
>in lapply - any indication what might be wrong is appreciated.
>
>> xx = list(A=list(a=1:3, b=LETTERS[1:3]),"B"=list(a=7:9, b=LETTERS[7:9]))  > lapply(xx,`$`,"a") $A NULL $B NULL > `$`(xx[[1]],"a") [1] 1 2 3 >
>lapply(xx,`[`,"a") $A $A$a [1] 1 2 3 $B $B$a [1] 7 8 9 Any idea why I
>`$`(object, name) works when applied to the single list element but not
>within lapply (in contrast to `[`)?
>I checked the help page of the extraction operators but could not find
>anything that explains this. Thanks and best regards Hilmar >
>sessionInfo() R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23) Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>(64-bit) Running under: Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS Matrix products: default
>BLAS: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/libblas.so.3 LAPACK:
>/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/liblapack.so.3 locale: [1]
>LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
>LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
>LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C [9]
>LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
>LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices
>utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>[1] compiler_4.2.1
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