Find List Elements Containing Particular Values in R (Example Code)

In this tutorial, I’ll demonstrate how to find and extract all list elements that contain a specific values in the R programming language.

Creation of Example Data

x <- list(1:6,                     # Create example list
          "XXX",
          3)
x                                  # Print example list
# [[1]]
# [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6
# 
# [[2]]
# [1] "XXX"
# 
# [[3]]
# [1] 3

Example: Find List Elements that Contain Certain Value

sapply(x, function(y) 3 %in% y)    # Index positions of matches
# [1]  TRUE FALSE  TRUE

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