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() function? Something ala PERL's $# special var?

So I would like something like:

dat$vec1$vec2[$#]

instead of

dat$vec1$vec2[length(dat$vec1$vec2)]

Answer 1

There are many ways to do it:

• tail()

• x[length()]

• dplyr::last()

• x[end()[1]]

• mylast()

• rev()[1]

as some of them are either C++ function implemented through Rcpp or used by installing a package, I recommend you to use tail() as it's a built-in function and works with data frames too.

tail(vector, n=1)

Hope this helps. Cheers...!!