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Hi all Sorry for the confusing title. I noticed the following inconsistency: If i have a function that returns a named list with 2 (or more) elements, then using 'vapply' retains the names of the elements: > vapply(1:3, function(x) list("foo" = "bar", "hello" = "world"), > vector("list", 2)) [,1] [,2] [,3] foo

...roject.org] On Behalf Of Dean Attali > If i have a function that returns a named list with 2 (or more) elements, > then using 'vapply' retains the names of the elements: > .... > But if the function only returns one element, then the name "foo" is lost vapply _always simplifies_ according to the documentation. In the first case (function return value contains more than one element, and each ), vapply simplifies to a matrix of two lists (!). The names "foo" and "hello" have been added to the dimnames so you can tell which is which. in the second case...

Quote---------------- > If i have a function that returns a named list with 2 (or more) elements, > then using 'vapply' retains the names of the elements: > .... > But if the function only returns one element, then the name "foo" is lost vapply _always simplifies_ according to the documentation. In the first case (function return value contains more than one element, and each ), vapply simplifies to a matrix of two lists (!). The names "foo" and "hello" have been added to the dimnames so you can tell which is which. in the second case...