[R] Group a dinamic number of vectors in a data.frame

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Tue Feb 21 08:25:37 CET 2006


Daniele Medri wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I need to create a data.frame from a variable number of vectors.
> The number of these vectors could change so I need a dinamic way to
> group all in a data.frame. The number is length(abc).
> 
> e.g. vectors in my workspace
> 
> N1 <-c(1,2,3,4)
> N2 <-c(1,2,3,4)
> N3 <-c(1,2,3,4)
> abc <-c(1,2,3)
> 
> the data.frame I want to create:
> 
> tcm <-data.frame(OneVector, TwoVector,  paste("N",1:length(abc)))
> 
> Obviously :) if I am here this approach doesn't work, so any kind of tip
> is welcome.

For example:

   lab <- paste("N", seq(along=abc), sep="")
   D <- data.frame(lapply(lab, get))
   names(D) <- lab

Uwe Ligges



> Cheers




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