R help - Dec 2005 - how to make a sub list from a long list using the component name?

Hello, R users,
I have a long list with over 20,000 elements (say foo), now I want to make a sub
list of 30 elements from this list using the component names such as
subname<-c(
"a", "b", "d", "f", "g",
"h", "o", "q",...). One way to do it is to make
rest of
elements in the list NULL, that is too silly. Is there another way to make the
sub list?
Thanks
Joshua

szhan at uoguelph.ca writes:
> Hello, R users,
> I have a long list with over 20,000 elements (say foo), now I want to make
a sub
> list of 30 elements from this list using the component names such as
subname<-c(
> "a", "b", "d", "f", "g",
"h", "o", "q",...). One way to do it is to make
rest of
> elements in the list NULL, that is too silly. Is there another way to make
the
> sub list?
What's wrong with foo[subname] ?

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