How to access the last value in a vector?

Question

Suppose I have a vector that is nested in a dataframe one or two levels. Is there a quick and dirty way to access the last value, without using the length() fu

Answer 1

I have another method for finding the last element in a vector. Say the vector is a.

> a<-c(1:100,555)
> end(a)      #Gives indices of last and first positions
[1] 101   1
> a[end(a)[1]]   #Gives last element in a vector
[1] 555

There you go!