[R] How can I create a vector of vector?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 8/8/2008 1:59 PM, Jim wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> How can I create a vector of vector in R?
> for example, I would input the data as follows:
> x[1] <- c(31,2,3)
> x[2] <- c(1,2,5,34,5656)
> x[3] <- c(211,3243,5,343,3)

x <- list()
x[[1]] <- c(31,2,3)
x[[2]] <- c(1,2,5,34,5656)
x[[3]] <- c(211,3243,5,343,3)

Note the double brackets:  x[[1]] is the thing stored in the first 
element of x; x[1] would be a length-1 list containing only the first 
element from the list x.

Duncan Murdoch