I am using R for volatility calibration (Variance Gamma distribution). My question is very basic and not at all related to mathematics! y=spline(KK,CallPrices,,"fmm",,,strikes) When calling spline function it returns a list y The list contains some numbers which I have to subtract from another array called "MarketPrices" since y is a list a normal subtraction is not possible. For example I get this output from spline function... $x [1] 1050 1100 1150 1175 1200 1250 1300 1350 1400 1450 1500 $y [1] 175.15474 146.78475 121.76502 110.50149 100.05049 81.49610 65.87413 52.89799 42.24847 33.59852 26.63327 I can chunk out...the second list...using modelprices[2] > modelprices[2] $y [1] 175.15474 146.78475 121.76502 110.50149 100.05049 81.49610 65.87413 52.89799 42.24847 33.59852 26.63327 Still its a list and I think I need an array other array is > marketprices [1] 171.4 140.4 112.8 99.8 88.2 66.9 49.5 35.7 25.2 17.0 12.2 > marketprices-modelprices[2] Error in marketprices - modelprices[2] : non-numeric argument to binary operator Is there any way to perform this substraction? I tried the normal approaches like > as.numeric(modelprices[2]) Error: (list) object cannot be coerced to type 'double' Thanks in advance!-- Regards, Animesh Saxena (www.quantanalysis.in)