Sorry if this is a duplicate, I read through a number of threads but couldn't really find a good explanation.
I have a dataset (dataframe) where I calculated the mean value of each column. I now want to do some logical comparisons between these values. I used lapply to get the means
means_list <- lapply(dataset_df, mean)
which outputs a named list. But when I try to compare two elements of this list, e.g.
means_list["condition1"] > means_list["condition2"]
I get an error ("comparison of these types is not implemented").
I don't get that error if I use sapply instead so that I'm working with a named vector. I can also get around the error by converting the list to a dataframe with as.data.frame first.
So, I feel like I'm doing something wrong when subsetting a named list here but I don't quite understand how. Is there a correct way to subset the list so that I can do the logical comparison? Or is this not possible with named lists?
Thanks!