Extracting nth element from a nested list following strsplit - R

Question

I\'ve been trying to understand how to deal with the output of strsplit a bit better. I often have data such as this that I wish to split:

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Answer 1

(at least regarding 1D vectors) [ seems to return NA when "i > length(x)" whereas [[ returns an error.

x = runif(5)
x[6]
#[1] NA
x[[6]]
#Error in x[[6]] : subscript out of bounds

Digging a bit, do_subset_dflt (i.e. [) calls ExtractSubset where we notice that when a wanted index ("ii") is "> length(x)" NA is returned (a bit modified to be clean):

if(0 <= ii && ii < nx && ii != NA_INTEGER)
    result[i] = x[ii];
else
    result[i] = NA_INTEGER;

On the other hand do_subset2_dflt (i.e. [[) returns an error if the wanted index ("offset") is "> length(x)" (modified a bit to be clean):

if(offset < 0 || offset >= xlength(x)) {
    if(offset < 0 && (isNewList(x)) ...
    else errorcall(call, R_MSG_subs_o_b);
}

where #define R_MSG_subs_o_b _("subscript out of bounds")

(I'm not sure about the above code snippets but they do seem relevant based on their returns)