First, that isn't what is called a "list" in R, it is a character
vector.
Second, to get what you want, try
> sort(unique(x))
[1] "Atrazine" "Atrazine desethyl"
"Bentazone"
[4] "Epoxiconazol" "Fenpropimorph"
"Metolachlor"
[7] "Simazine"
On 19/10/06, jessica.gervais at tudor.lu <jessica.gervais at tudor.lu>
wrote:> Hi,
>
> I would like to know how to extract the arguments from a list :
>
> For example, I have a list of charchacter x
> x<-
>
c("Bentazone","Atrazine","Epoxiconazol","Metolachlor","Epoxiconazol","Atrazine
>
desethyl","Fenpropimorph","Epoxiconazol","Metolachlor","Simazine","Atrazine
> desethyl","Epoxiconazol","Atrazine
>
desethyl","Atrazine","Epoxiconazol","Metolachlor","Epoxiconazol","Atrazine
>
desethyl","Fenpropimorph","Epoxiconazol","Metolachlor","Simazine")
>
> and I am searching for a (basic) function which would return arguments of
> the list x, aphabeticaly reordered like this :
> ("Atrazine","Atrazine
>
desethyl","Bentazone","Epoxiconazol","Fenpropimorph","Metolachlor","Simazine").
>
>
> Can anyone help me ?
>
>
> Thanks by advance
>
> Jessica
>
>
>
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