Loop over a list

Looping over a list is just as easy and convenient as looping over a vector. There are again two different approaches here:

primes_list <- list(2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13)

# loop version 1
for (p in primes_list) {
  print(p)
}

# loop version 2
for (i in 1:length(primes_list)) {
  print(primes_list[[i]])
}

Notice that you need double square brackets - [[ ]] - to select the list elements in loop version 2.

Suppose you have a list of all sorts of information on New York City: its population size, the names of the boroughs, and whether it is the capital of the United States. We've already defined a list nyc containing this information (source: Wikipedia).

As in the previous exercise, loop over the nyc list in two different ways to print its elements:

Loop directly over the nyc list (loop version 1).
Define a looping index and do subsetting using double brackets (loop version 2).

Exercise

Loop over a list

Instructions