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

if you'd like to avoid numeric indices, you can use

a <- setdiff(names(a),c("name1", ..., "namen"))

to delete names namea...namen from a. this works for lists

> l <- list(a=1,b=2)
> l[setdiff(names(l),"a")]
$b
[1] 2

as well as for vectors

> v <- c(a=1,b=2)
> v[setdiff(names(v),"a")]
b 
2