[R] list to Matrix

Dimitris Rizopoulos Dimitris.Rizopoulos at med.kuleuven.be
Fri Nov 2 10:43:37 CET 2007


you can use do.call(), e.g.,

do.call(cbind, l)


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris


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Quoting Markus Schmidberger <schmidb at ibe.med.uni-muenchen.de>:

> Hello,
>
> I have a list of vectors (all the same length). How to convert the list
> to a matrix? Each vector should be a column.
> I tried this:
>
> l <- list(c(1,2,3),c(1,2,3),c(1,2,3))
> mat <- matrix( unlist(l), nrow=length(l) )
>
> But I think this is not very efficient. Is there a better solution?
>
> Thanks
> Markus
>
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>
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