Try this:
x$second <- NULL
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Eduardo de Oliveira Horta <
eduardo.oliveirahorta@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> say I have an object
>
> > x = list(first = 10, second = 20, third = "Yeah!")
>
> and want to remove the $second element of that list. My first try was, of
> course,
>
> > rm(x$second)
>
> which gave me the following error message
>
> > Error in rm(x$second) : ... must contain names or character strings
>
> Any ideas here, folks?
>
> Best regards, and Merry Christmas!
>
> Eduardo Horta
>
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