Drop list elements if

I am doing a simulation in R that generates a list of simulated data objects and then simulates emergent behavior on them. Unfortunately, it chokes on “data” meeting a certain set of conditions and so I need to kick data like that from the list before running it. This is kind of hard to do as if you delete a list element you mess up the indexing since when you kick a list element the list is now shorter. My solution is to create a vector of dummies flagging which list elements to kick by indexing in ascending order, but then actually kick list elements in descending order. Note that if the length of the list is used elsewhere in your code that you’ll need to update it after running it.

FWIW, the substantive issue in my case is diffusion where some of the networks contain isolates, which doesn’t work in the region of parameter space which assumes all diffusion occurs through the network. In my case, deleting these networks is a conservative assumption.

Apologies for posting the code as a screenshot but WordPress seems to really hate recursive loops, regardless of whether I use sourcecode or pre tags.

 

 

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