[R] list to Matrix - remove NAs von list.

Markus Schmidberger schmidb at ibe.med.uni-muenchen.de
Fri Nov 2 12:00:09 CET 2007


Thanks,

I have the case that there is a NA in the list. This should not be a column.
But na.omit(l) does not work for lists. How to remove NAs from a list?

l <- list(c(1,2,3),NA,c(1,2,3))
mat <- do.call(cbind, l)

Best
Markus


Dimitris Rizopoulos schrieb:
> 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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