Finds the position of a named list element within a list (with no

Finds the position of a named list element within a list (with no recurssion).

list.pos(name, lst)

Arguments

name

A character vector. Ideally a character vector of length 1 (just one name); hoever it can accept a character vector of length greater than 1. The names in the character vector will be used as names (element headings) in the results vector.

lst

A list. Ideally a list with all elements named.

Details

All elements in the input list must have a name for this function to give accurate positions. This function can accept a character vector and return the position of each name in the vector.

Will return a character vector with names for each element corresponding to the names in the character vector given to the function.If a name is not present in the list then NA is returned.