R – a brief introduction - Szymon Stoma.pptVIP

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Lists (3/4) The names of components may be abbreviated down to the minimum number of letters needed to identify them uniquely. Syntactic quicksand: aa[[1]] is the first component of aa aa[1] is the sublist consisting of the first component of aa only. There are functions whose return value is a list(and not a vector / matrix / array) Lists are very flexible my.list - list(c(5,4,-1),c(X1,X2,X3)) my.list [[1]]: [1] 5 4 -1 [[2]]: [1] X1 X2 X3 my.list[[1]] [1] 5 4 -1 my.list - list(comp