pop: Remove items

In bgreenwell/bmisc: Miscellaneous R Functions

Description

pop is a generic function that will remove the item at the given position.

Usage

pop(x, i = length(x))

## Default S3 method:
pop(x, i = length(x))

## S3 method for class 'list'
pop(x, i = length(x))

Arguments

x	An appropriate R object.
i	Integer position of the element to be removed in x. Defaults to removing the last element of x.

Value

Returns the object x with the i-th element removed.

Examples

x <- 1:3
y <- letters[1:3]
z <- as.list(x)
names(z) <- y
pop(x)
pop(y, 2)  # remove the second element
pop(y, -2)  # remove everythng except the second element
for (i in 1:3) print(z <- pop(z))

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