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Q: 

R: count number of objects in list

Anyone know an R function that will return the number of items in a list?

Thanks

Karl

+6  A: 

length(x)

Joey  2009-11-16 07:08:55
+2  A: 

I spent ages trying to figure this out but it is simple! You can use length. length(mylist) will tell you the number of objects "mylist" contains.

... and just realised someone had already answered this- sorry!

anon  2010-06-14 13:26:52
It's still an answer, and still a valid one at that, so +1.
PaulHurleyuk  2010-06-14 18:04:13

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