list.pos: Finds the position of a named list element within a list (with no
recurssion).
Description
All elements in the input list must have a name for this function to give
accurate positions. This function can accept a character vector and return
the position of each name in the vector.
Usage
list.pos(name, lst)
Arguments
name
A character vector. Ideally a character vector of length 1
(just one name); however it can accept a character vector of length greater
than 1. The names in the character vector will be used as names (element
headings) in the results vector.
lst
A list with all elements named. If each element does not have a
name then there can be no garuantee to the accuracy of the results.
Details
Will return a character vector with names for each element corresponding
to the names in the character vector given to the function.If a name is not
present in the list then NA is returned.