title: How would I perform quantile() of a sub-list within a list in R?
body: <p>I have a <code>biglist</code>that contains 0 sublists, each of which are <code>List of 1</code>.</p>
  
  <p>When I do <code>&gt;biglist</code> I get this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>            [,1]       [,2]       [,3]       [,4]       [,5]       [,6]       [,7]       [,8]   
  LIST1       Numeric,6  Numeric,6  Numeric,6  Numeric,6  Numeric,6  Numeric,6  Numeric,6  Numeric,6  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Each sub-list contains both integer values and NA values. i.e.</p>
  
  <p><code>&gt;biglist[1]</code> yields </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>NA 0.50   NA   NA 0.25 1.00   NA 0.00`</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p><code>&gt;biglist[2]</code> yields</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>0.500 0.375 0.000 0.500    NA 0.500 0.500    NA</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>And so on. I'm trying to find the 50th percentile and 95th percentile of all of the integer values of the sublists, but I want to get rid of the <code>NA</code> values. How would I accomplish this?</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: Reproducible example
  <code>biglist &lt;- list(c(NA, 0.5, NA, NA, 0.25, 1, NA, 0), c(0.5, NA, NA, NA, NA,NA, NA, NA), c(0.5, 0.375, 0, 0.5, NA, 0.5, 0.5, NA), c(NA, NA,NA, NA, NA, 0.5, 0.5, 0.333333333333333), c(NA, NA, 0.125, NA,0.5, 1, 0.5, 0.5), c(0.5, 0.25, 0.5, NA, NA, NA, NA, 0.5), c(0.625,NA, NA, 0.5, NA, NA, NA, NA), c(0.25, NA, 0.5, NA, NA, NA, NA,0.333333333333333), c(0.25, 0.75, NA, 0.5, 0.5, NA, 0, NA), c(NA,NA, 0.375, NA, 0.5, 0.5, 1, NA))</code></p>