How can I remove an element from a list?

Question

I have a list and I want to remove a single element from it. How can I do this?

I\'ve tried looking up what I think the obvious names for this function would be in

Answer 1

Don't know if you still need an answer to this but I found from my limited (3 weeks worth of self-teaching R) experience with R that, using the NULL assignment is actually wrong or sub-optimal especially if you're dynamically updating a list in something like a for-loop.

To be more precise, using

myList[[5]] <- NULL

will throw the error

myList[[5]] <- NULL : replacement has length zero

or

more elements supplied than there are to replace

What I found to work more consistently is

myList <- myList[[-5]]