Note that there is a distinct difference between single brackets ( [...] ) and double brackets ( [[...]] ). The first always returns a list which is a subset of the original object to be subsetted, while the latter returns the content of these elements.
Using [i] : The method is similar to vector subsetting except that the result will not be the content of the elements specified, but a sub-list. Let us call persons[1] and see what we get:
The result of person[1] is again a list, but only contains the first entry of the original object person . In the same way we can use person["name"] or person[c(TRUE, FALSE)] . This also works with vectors, e.g., extracting elements 2:1 (both but reverse order):
A negative index ( person[-1] ) can be used to get all but the first element (does not work with characters). The result is again a sub-list (like for positive indices).
Using [[i]] , single value : This subsetting type is most comparable to vector subsetting. Instead of a sub-list, we will get the content of the element, in this case a named character vector of length \(2\) .
The same can be achieved using person[["name"]] on named lists. Note that subsetting with negative indices ( person[[-1]] ) does not work in combination with double brackets.
Using the $ operator : Most commonly used when working with named lists is the $ operator. This operator is called the dollar operator . Instead of calling person[["name"]] we can also call person$name as long as the name does not contain blanks or special characters. Note that there is no blank before/after the $ operator (not as shown in the output of str() ).
Multiple $ operators can also be combined. If we are interested in the month of birth ( month ) which is stored within date_of_birth we can use:
How to read :
Using [[j]] with vectors : Take care, something unexpected happens. As an example, let us call person[[c(1, 2)]] . We could think this returns us person[[1]] and person[[2]] , but that’s not the case. Instead, nested or recursive subsetting is performed. The two indices ( c(1, 2) ) are used as indices for different depths of the recursive list.
What happened: The first element of the vector (here 1 ) is used for the top-level list. Our first entry the vector name . The second element of the vector ( 2 ) is then used to extract the second element of whatever name contains. It is the same as:
Note : We will not use this often, but keep it in mind if you run into interesting results when subsetting lists or data frames. The same happens if you use a vector, e.g., person[[c("name", "last_name")]] or person[[c("date_of_birth", "month")]] .
Exercise 9.1 Practicing subsetting on lists : The following object demo is a list with information about two persons, Frank and Petra (simply copy&paste it into your R session).
Solution . Franks location : demo is a list with two elements, one called "Frank" . Thus, we can access the first list element using demo$Frank . This returns the content of this list element which itself is, again, a list. In there, we have the location we are looking for.
Thus, one option to get Franks location is to use:
Alternatively, we could use brackets and subsetting by name. Warning: we need double brackets to access the content .
Try demo["Frank"]$location : This will not work. The reason is that we only use single brackets!
demo["Frank"] returns a sub-list of demo which now only contains "Frank" (no longer "Petra" ). However, we do not get the content or information for Frank. Let see:
The last line looks werid but always only just extract "Frank" from itself but does not access the list element for "Frank" . Thus, when we try to access location (which does not exist on this level) we get a NULL in return.
How many kids does Frank have? To answer this question, we need to find out how long the kids vector is. Again, we can access this specific element in different ways, the most easy one:
Petra moves to Vienna : You can use any subsetting technique and assign a new value. I will stick to the $ operator and do the following:
Replacement functions are available for all subset types above which can be used to overwrite elements in an existing list or add new elements to a list.
As an example, let us replace the element $name in the person object. We use subsetting with the $ operator and assign (store) a new object. As person$name exists, it will be replaced.
Or replace the month in the date of birth with an integer 9L instead of "September" :
The same way, new elements can be added. If the element we assign an object to does not yet exist, it will be added to the original list object. Let us add a job element containing "Actor" :
Delete elements : To delete an element, we simply have to replace it with a NULL object. An example using a very simple list:
As you can see it is possible that a list element can contain NULL (see element c ) but if assigned ( x$a <- NULL ) R will remove the element completely (not storing NULL on it).
Exercise 9.2 Practicing replacement : As in the previous exercise we will use the following list to work with. The list contains information about Petra and Frank.
We need to update this list and add or change some of the elements.
Solution . Petra moves to Vienna : You can use any subsetting methods we have just seen. In this solution we will stick to the $ operator. All we have to do is to access Petras location, and assign a new value.
Frank got a third child : Here, we could do the same as for Petra and simply assign a new vector with all three kids to Frank ( demo$Frank$kids <- c("Peter", "Paul", "Malena") ). However, this is not super nice (hard-coded).
Instead we use c() and combine the vector containing the first two kids with the new born, and store the vector (combination of subsetting and replacement) as follows:
Adding Regina : Regina is not yet in our list, however, we can assign new elements the same way we replace elements. If the element exists it will be overwritten. If it does not exist, it will be added. In this case we want to add a new list to the existing object demo called $Regina :
Multiple lists can be combined using either c() or list() .
Example: Using two lists list1 and list2 (both of length 2).
The latter results in a recursive list where each element from the list res2 itself contains a list with two elements. As shown, we can also name the elements (similar to cbind() / rbind() when creating matrices; Matrices: Combining objects ). Note that the naming of the list-elements has a different effect when using c() (try c(list_one = list1, list_two = list2) ).
Just as a brief summary to recap the new content:
An overview of the different subsetting methods we have learned for different objects (vectors, matrices, and lists).
Subset | By index | By name | Logical | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Element | [possible] | |||
Element | or | [possible] | ||
Row | [possible] | |||
Column | [possible] | |||
List | [possible] | |||
Element | or | [not possible] | ||
Element (recursive) | [not possible] |
Most subsetting methods also work with vectors (vectors of indices or names). You will see that we can re-use most of this when working with data frames, our next topic.
Description.
Functions to construct, coerce and check for both kinds of R lists.
as.list(x, …) # S3 method for environment as.list(x, all.names = FALSE, sorted = FALSE, …) as.pairlist(x)
is.list(x) is.pairlist(x)
alist(…)
objects, possibly named.
object to be coerced or tested.
a logical indicating whether to copy all values or (default) only those whose names do not begin with a dot.
a logical indicating whether the names of the resulting list should be sorted (increasingly). Note that this is somewhat costly, but may be useful for comparison of environments.
Almost all lists in R internally are Generic Vectors , whereas traditional dotted pair lists (as in LISP) remain available but rarely seen by users (except as formals of functions).
The arguments to list or pairlist are of the form value or tag = value . The functions return a list or dotted pair list composed of its arguments with each value either tagged or untagged, depending on how the argument was specified.
alist handles its arguments as if they described function arguments. So the values are not evaluated, and tagged arguments with no value are allowed whereas list simply ignores them. alist is most often used in conjunction with formals .
as.list attempts to coerce its argument to a list. For functions, this returns the concatenation of the list of formal arguments and the function body. For expressions, the list of constituent elements is returned. as.list is generic, and as the default method calls as.vector (mode = "list") for a non-list, methods for as.vector may be invoked. as.list turns a factor into a list of one-element factors. Attributes may be dropped unless the argument already is a list or expression. (This is inconsistent with functions such as as.character which always drop attributes, and is for efficiency since lists can be expensive to copy.)
is.list returns TRUE if and only if its argument is a list or a pairlist of length \(> 0\). is.pairlist returns TRUE if and only if the argument is a pairlist or NULL (see below).
The " environment " method for as.list copies the name-value pairs (for names not beginning with a dot) from an environment to a named list. The user can request that all named objects are copied. Unless sorted = TRUE , the list is in no particular order (the order depends on the order of creation of objects and whether the environment is hashed). No enclosing environments are searched. (Objects copied are duplicated so this can be an expensive operation.) Note that there is an inverse operation, the as.environment () method for list objects.
An empty pairlist, pairlist() is the same as NULL . This is different from list() : some but not all operations will promote an empty pairlist to an empty list.
as.pairlist is implemented as as.vector (x, "pairlist") , and hence will dispatch methods for the generic function as.vector . Lists are copied element-by-element into a pairlist and the names of the list used as tags for the pairlist: the return value for other types of argument is undocumented.
list , is.list and is.pairlist are primitive functions.
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language . Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.
vector ("list", length) for creation of a list with empty components; c , for concatenation; formals . unlist is an approximate inverse to as.list() .
‘ plotmath ’ for the use of list in plot annotation.
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A list in R programming is a generic object consisting of an ordered collection of objects. Lists are one-dimensional , heterogeneous data structures.
The list can be a list of vectors , a list of matrices, a list of characters, a list of functions , and so on.
A list is a vector but with heterogeneous data elements. A list in R is created with the use of the list() function .
R allows accessing elements of an R list with the use of the index value. In R, the indexing of a list starts with 1 instead of 0.
To create a List in R you need to use the function called “ list() “.
In other words, a list is a generic vector containing other objects. To illustrate how a list looks, we take an example here. We want to build a list of employees with the details. So for this, we want attributes such as ID, employee name, and the number of employees.
Example:
Naming list components make it easier to access them.
We can access components of an R list in two ways.
All the components of a list can be named and we can use those names to access the components of the R list using the dollar command.
Example:
We can also access the components of the R list using indices.
To access the top-level components of a R list we have to use a double slicing operator “ [[ ]] ” which is two square brackets and if we want to access the lower or inner-level components of a R list we have to use another square bracket “ [ ] ” along with the double slicing operator “ [[ ]] “.
A R list can also be modified by accessing the components and replacing them with the ones which you want.
Two R lists can be concatenated using the concatenation function. So, when we want to concatenate two lists we have to use the concatenation operator.
Syntax:
list = c(list, list1) list = the original list list1 = the new list
To add an item to the end of list, we can use append() function.
To delete components of a R list, first of all, we need to access those components and then insert a negative sign before those components. It indicates that we had to delete that component.
We can merge the R list by placing all the lists into a single list.
Here we are going to convert the R list to vector, for this we will create a list first and then unlist the list into the vector.
We will create matrices using matrix() function in R programming. Another function that will be used is unlist() function to convert the lists into a vector.
In this article we have covered Lists in R, we have covered list operations like creating, naming, merging and deleting a list in R language. R list is an important concept and should not be skipped.
Hope you learnt about R lists and it’s operations in this article.
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A list in R can contain many different data types inside it. A list is a collection of data which is ordered and changeable.
To create a list, use the list() function:
You can access the list items by referring to its index number, inside brackets. The first item has index 1, the second item has index 2, and so on:
To change the value of a specific item, refer to the index number:
To find out how many items a list has, use the length() function:
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To find out if a specified item is present in a list, use the %in% operator:
Check if "apple" is present in the list:
To add an item to the end of the list, use the append() function:
Add "orange" to the list:
To add an item to the right of a specified index, add " after= index number " in the append() function:
Add "orange" to the list after "banana" (index 2):
You can also remove list items. The following example creates a new, updated list without an "apple" item:
Remove "apple" from the list:
You can specify a range of indexes by specifying where to start and where to end the range, by using the : operator:
Note: When specifying a range, the return value will be a new list with the specified items.
Return the second, third, fourth and fifth item:
Note: The search will start at index 2 (included) and end at index 5 (included).
Remember that the first item has index 1.
You can loop through the list items by using a for loop:
Print all items in the list, one by one:
There are several ways to join, or concatenate, two or more lists in R.
The most common way is to use the c() function, which combines two elements together:
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On this page you’ll learn how to apply the different assignment operators in the R programming language .
The content of the article is structured as follows:
Let’s dive right into the exemplifying R syntax!
Generally speaking, there is a preference in the R programming community to use an arrow (i.e. <-) instead of an equal sign (i.e. =) for assignment.
In my opinion, it makes a lot of sense to stick to this convention to produce scripts that are easy to read for other R programmers.
However, you should also take care about the spacing when assigning in R. False spacing can even lead to error messages .
For instance, the following R code checks whether x is smaller than minus five due to the false blank between < and -:
A properly working assignment could look as follows:
However, this code is hard to read, since the missing space makes it difficult to differentiate between the different symbols and numbers.
In my opinion, the best way to assign in R is to put a blank before and after the assignment arrow:
As mentioned before, the difference between <- and = is mainly due to programming style . However, the following R code using an equal sign would also work:
In the following example, I’ll show a situation where <- and = do not lead to the same result. So keep on reading!
In this Example, I’ll illustrate some substantial differences between assignment arrows and equal signs.
Let’s assume that we want to compute the mean of a vector ranging from 1 to 5. Then, we could use the following R code:
However, if we want to have a look at the vector x that we have used within the mean function, we get an error message:
Let’s compare this to exactly the same R code but with assignment arrow instead of an equal sign:
The output of the mean function is the same. However, the assignment arrow also stored the values in a new data object x:
This example shows a meaningful difference between = and <-. While the equal sign doesn’t store the used values outside of a function, the assignment arrow saves them in a new data object that can be used outside the function.
So far, we have only compared <- and =. However, there is another assignment method we have to discuss: The double assignment arrow <<- (also called scoping assignment).
The following code illustrates the difference between <- and <<- in R. This difference mainly gets visible when applying user-defined functions .
Let’s manually create a function that contains a single assignment arrow:
Now, let’s apply this function in R:
The data object x_fun1, to which we have assigned the value 5 within the function, does not exist:
Let’s do the same with a double assignment arrow:
Let’s apply the function:
And now let’s return the data object x_fun2:
As you can see based on the previous output of the RStudio console, the assignment via <<- saved the data object in the global environment outside of the user-defined function.
I have recently released a video on my YouTube channel , which explains the R syntax of this tutorial. You can find the video below:
The YouTube video will be added soon.
In addition to the video, I can recommend to have a look at the other articles on this website.
In summary: You learned on this page how to use assignment operators in the R programming language. If you have further questions, please let me know in the comments.
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I told you he was over but I didn’t think they’d figure it out this fast. Did he even pitch?
Once. 3 batters faced. 2 walks, 1 hit
Sounds about right.
I thought you guys were talking about Darvish pitching against high school boys, and I thought, “Whoa, those three boys must feel great right now, and the rest of the team must be disappointed that he just stopped after three hitters.”
Yep 7,8,9 hitters and didn’t get an out.
I expected him to be the DFA (and agree) option but really, I’m giving him a pass on that last outing due to his schedule. The guy was with the AAA team the night before, drove 2 hours to an airport in Texas at like 7 am to fly and arrive at the ballpark, I think around the 2nd inning.
Tough circumstances to at least not overlook when talking about his stat line is all I’m saying.
He had a rough go in 19 with the Padres as well. I’ve seen him be good other places. I hope he lands on his feet.
Darvish out since end of May. This August. Five weeks? Don’t tell me he’s gambling too…..
No no…the other Japanese player who DHs
Sorry CARL, Back to NASCAR !!
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FanSided’s MLB insider Robert Murray reported Friday afternoon that the club is designating first baseman Dom Smith for assignment.
The news comes hours after the Herald confirmed that Triston Casas had left his rehab assignment in Triple-A Worcester and was on his way to Baltimore to rejoin the big-league team.
After spending the first six years of his big-league career with the New York Mets and last season with the Washington Nationals, Smith, 29, signed with the Red Sox at the beginning of May. He signed with the club knowing that his time in Boston was likely contingent on Casas’ absence, but was a valuable contributor during his 83 games; he hit .237 with a .706 OPS, 25 walks, and 65 strikeouts. He homered six times and collected 20 doubles, tied for the second-most of his career. He ranked in the 80th MLB percentile in Launch-Angle Sweet-Spot rate,
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The Red Sox also optioned right-hander Chase Shugart to Triple-A in order to reinstate right-hander Cooper Criswell from the 7-day COVID-related injured list.
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The Chicago White Sox fired manager Pedro Grifol earlier this month and named former Cleveland Guardians star Grady Sizemore the team's interim manager.
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Of course, Guardians fans know Sizemore for his electrifying—but injury-riddled—nine-year tenure with Cleveland from 2004 through 2012.
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The 42-year-old made his return in 2014 and played two more seasons, spending time with the Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays. However, he was never able to regain his previous form.
Throughout his time in Cleveland, Sizemore slashed .269/.357/.473 with 139 homers.
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I just finished reading about scoping in the R intro , and am very curious about the <<- assignment.
The manual showed one (very interesting) example for <<- , which I feel I understood. What I am still missing is the context of when this can be useful.
So what I would love to read from you are examples (or links to examples) on when the use of <<- can be interesting/useful. What might be the dangers of using it (it looks easy to loose track of), and any tips you might feel like sharing.
<<- is most useful in conjunction with closures to maintain state. Here's a section from a recent paper of mine:
A closure is a function written by another function. Closures are so-called because they enclose the environment of the parent function, and can access all variables and parameters in that function. This is useful because it allows us to have two levels of parameters. One level of parameters (the parent) controls how the function works. The other level (the child) does the work. The following example shows how can use this idea to generate a family of power functions. The parent function ( power ) creates child functions ( square and cube ) that actually do the hard work.
The ability to manage variables at two levels also makes it possible to maintain the state across function invocations by allowing a function to modify variables in the environment of its parent. The key to managing variables at different levels is the double arrow assignment operator <<- . Unlike the usual single arrow assignment ( <- ) that always works on the current level, the double arrow operator can modify variables in parent levels.
This makes it possible to maintain a counter that records how many times a function has been called, as the following example shows. Each time new_counter is run, it creates an environment, initialises the counter i in this environment, and then creates a new function.
The new function is a closure, and its environment is the enclosing environment. When the closures counter_one and counter_two are run, each one modifies the counter in its enclosing environment and then returns the current count.
It helps to think of <<- as equivalent to assign (if you set the inherits parameter in that function to TRUE ). The benefit of assign is that it allows you to specify more parameters (e.g. the environment), so I prefer to use assign over <<- in most cases.
Using <<- and assign(x, value, inherits=TRUE) means that "enclosing environments of the supplied environment are searched until the variable 'x' is encountered." In other words, it will keep going through the environments in order until it finds a variable with that name, and it will assign it to that. This can be within the scope of a function, or in the global environment.
In order to understand what these functions do, you need to also understand R environments (e.g. using search ).
I regularly use these functions when I'm running a large simulation and I want to save intermediate results. This allows you to create the object outside the scope of the given function or apply loop. That's very helpful, especially if you have any concern about a large loop ending unexpectedly (e.g. a database disconnection), in which case you could lose everything in the process. This would be equivalent to writing your results out to a database or file during a long running process, except that it's storing the results within the R environment instead.
My primary warning with this: be careful because you're now working with global variables, especially when using <<- . That means that you can end up with situations where a function is using an object value from the environment, when you expected it to be using one that was supplied as a parameter. This is one of the main things that functional programming tries to avoid (see side effects ). I avoid this problem by assigning my values to a unique variable names (using paste with a set or unique parameters) that are never used within the function, but just used for caching and in case I need to recover later on (or do some meta-analysis on the intermediate results).
One place where I used <<- was in simple GUIs using tcl/tk. Some of the initial examples have it -- as you need to make a distinction between local and global variables for statefullness. See for example
which uses <<- . Otherwise I concur with Marek :) -- a Google search can help.
On this subject I'd like to point out that the <<- operator will behave strangely when applied (incorrectly) within a for loop (there may be other cases too). Given the following code:
you might expect that the function would return the expected sum, 6, but instead it returns 0, with a global variable mySum being created and assigned the value 3. I can't fully explain what is going on here but certainly the body of a for loop is not a new scope 'level'. Instead, it seems that R looks outside of the fortest function, can't find a mySum variable to assign to, so creates one and assigns the value 1, the first time through the loop. On subsequent iterations, the RHS in the assignment must be referring to the (unchanged) inner mySum variable whereas the LHS refers to the global variable. Therefore each iteration overwrites the value of the global variable to that iteration's value of i , hence it has the value 3 on exit from the function.
Hope this helps someone - this stumped me for a couple of hours today! (BTW, just replace <<- with <- and the function works as expected).
The <<- operator can also be useful for Reference Classes when writing Reference Methods . For example:
I use it in order to change inside purrr::map() an object in the global environment.
Say I want to obtain a vector which is c(1,2,3,1,2,3,4,5), that is if there is a 1, let it 1, otherwise add 1 until the next 1.
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The structure of the above list can be examined with the str() function. str(x) Output. List of 3. $ a:num 2.5. $ b:logi TRUE. $ c:int [1:3] 1 2 3. In this example, a, b and c are called tags which makes it easier to reference the components of the list. However, tags are optional.
That's not what you are trying to do. You want subassignment into the list. However, assuming you have some arbitrary named list, hopefully you know at least the environment containing that list. Then you can do this: .GlobalEnv[[paste0("x_",1)]][[1]] <- 6. answered Aug 28, 2016 at 13:11. Roland.
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For you to try (2) Create a list for the movie "The Shining", which contains three components: moviename — a character string with the movie title (stored in mov); actors — a vector with the names of the main actors (stored in act); reviews — a data frame that contains some reviews (stored in rev) # Character variable for movie name mov <- "The Shining" # Vector for the names of the ...
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Assign Values In a List to Names Description. Assigns the values in a list to variables in an environment. The variable names are taken from the names of the list, so all of the elements of the list must have non-blank names. Usage assignList(aList, pos = -1, envir = as.environment(pos), inherits = FALSE) Arguments
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@ClarkThomborson The semantics are fundamentally different because in R assignment is a regular operation which is performed via a function call to an assignment function. However, this is not the case for = in an argument list. In an argument list, = is an arbitrary separator token which is no longer present after parsing. After parsing f(x = 1), R sees (essentially) call("f", 1).
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Using <<- and assign(x, value, inherits=TRUE) means that "enclosing environments of the supplied environment are searched until the variable 'x' is encountered." In other words, it will keep going through the environments in order until it finds a variable with that name, and it will assign it to that.