如果你不想就地修改列表(例如，将一个元素传递给一个函数)，你可以使用索引:负索引表示“不包括这个元素”。

x <- list("a", "b", "c", "d", "e"); # example list

x[-2];       # without 2nd element

x[-c(2, 3)]; # without 2nd and 3rd

同样，逻辑索引向量也很有用:

x[x != "b"]; # without elements that are "b"

这也适用于数据框架:

df <- data.frame(number = 1:5, name = letters[1:5])

df[df$name != "b", ];     # rows without "b"

df[df$number %% 2 == 1, ] # rows with odd numbers only

rlist包(http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rlist/index.html)用于处理各种列表操作。

示例(http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rlist/vignettes/Filtering.html):

library(rlist)
devs <- 
  list(
    p1=list(name="Ken",age=24,
      interest=c("reading","music","movies"),
      lang=list(r=2,csharp=4,python=3)),
    p2=list(name="James",age=25,
      interest=c("sports","music"),
      lang=list(r=3,java=2,cpp=5)),
    p3=list(name="Penny",age=24,
      interest=c("movies","reading"),
      lang=list(r=1,cpp=4,python=2)))

list.remove(devs, c("p1","p2"))

结果:

# $p3
# $p3$name
# [1] "Penny"
# 
# $p3$age
# [1] 24
# 
# $p3$interest
# [1] "movies"  "reading"
# 
# $p3$lang
# $p3$lang$r
# [1] 1
# 
# $p3$lang$cpp
# [1] 4
# 
# $p3$lang$python
# [1] 2

不知道你是否还需要回答这个问题，但我从我有限的(3周的自学R) R经验中发现，使用NULL赋值实际上是错误的或次优的，特别是当你在动态更新一个列表时，比如for循环。

更准确地说，使用

myList[[5]] <- NULL

会抛出错误

myList[[5]] <- NULL:替换长度为0

or

供应的元素多于可供替换的元素

我发现更有效的方法是

myList <- myList[[-5]]

在命名列表的情况下，我发现这些helper函数很有用

member <- function(list,names){
    ## return the elements of the list with the input names
    member..names <- names(list)
    index <- which(member..names %in% names)
    list[index]    
}


exclude <- function(list,names){
     ## return the elements of the list not belonging to names
     member..names <- names(list)
     index <- which(!(member..names %in% names))
    list[index]    
}  
aa <- structure(list(a = 1:10, b = 4:5, fruits = c("apple", "orange"
)), .Names = c("a", "b", "fruits"))

> aa
## $a
##  [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10

## $b
## [1] 4 5

## $fruits
## [1] "apple"  "orange"


> member(aa,"fruits")
## $fruits
## [1] "apple"  "orange"


> exclude(aa,"fruits")
## $a
##  [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10

## $b
## [1] 4 5

下面是如何在R中删除列表的最后一个元素:

x <- list("a", "b", "c", "d", "e")
x[length(x)] <- NULL

如果x可能是一个向量，那么你需要创建一个新对象:

x <- c("a", "b", "c", "d", "e")
x <- x[-length(x)]

处理列表和向量

这里有一个简单的解决方案，可以使用底数r。它从原始的数字列表中删除数字5。您可以使用相同的方法从列表中删除任何您想要的元素。

#the original list
original_list = c(1:10)

#the list element to remove
remove = 5

#the new list (which will not contain whatever the `remove` variable equals)
new_list = c()

#go through all the elements in the list and add them to the new list if they don't equal the `remove` variable
counter = 1
for (n in original_list){
  if (n != ){
    new_list[[counter]] = n
    counter = counter + 1
  }
}

new_list变量不再包含5。

new_list
# [1]  1  2  3  4  6  7  8  9 10