[R] Converting a list to a matrix - I still don't think I have it right

[Peter Dalgaard]

"michael watson (IAH-C)" <michael.watson at bbsrc.ac.uk> writes:

> Hi
> 
> We have touched on this before, but I don't think I quite got it right.
> 
> So I have a list, each element of which is a a vector of 2 numbers:
> 
> > l2
> $cat000_a01
> [1] 0.3429944 4.5138244
> 
> $cat000_a02
> [1] 0.1929336 4.3064944
> 
> $cat000_a03
> [1] -0.2607796  4.1551591
> 
> What I actually want to convert this into is a matrix with the names
> (cat000_a01 etc) as row names, the first element of each of the vectors
> forming the first column of the new matrix, and the second element of
> each of the vectors forming the second column:
> 
> cat000_a01	0.3429944	4.5138244
> cat000_a02	0.1929336	4.3064944
> cat000_a03	-0.2607796  4.1551591

do.call("rbind", list)

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