Get the First Elements of a Vector or List

This function retrieves the first n elements of a vector or list.

Usage

getfirst(x, n = 1)

# Default S3 method
getfirst(x, n = 1)

Arguments

x

A vector, list, or other supported data type.

n

An integer specifying the number of elements to retrieve from the start. Default is 1.

Value

The first n elements of the input.

Examples

# Get the first element of a vector
getfirst(c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5))
#> [1] 1
# Get the first 2 elements of a vector
getfirst(c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 2)
#> [1] 2
# Get the first element of a list
getfirst(list("a", "b", "c"))
#> [1] "a"
# Get the first 2 elements of a list
getfirst(list("a", "b", "c"), 2)
#> [1] "b"