[R] How to get names of a list into df:s?

Bert Gunter gunter.berton at gene.com
Fri Feb 22 01:34:42 CET 2008


mapply(data.frame,value=g,nm=lapply(names(g),rep,length(g)),SIMPLIFY=FALSE)

Cheers,

Bert Gunter
Genentech

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On
Behalf Of John Kane
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 2:05 PM
To: Lauri Nikkinen; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] How to get names of a list into df:s?

I don't see any difference 
--- Lauri Nikkinen <lauri.nikkinen at iki.fi> wrote:

> R users,
> 
> I have a simple lapply question.
> 
> g <- list(a=1:3, b=4:6, c=7:9)
> g <- lapply(g, function(x) as.data.frame(x))
> lapply(g, function(x) cbind(x, var1 = rep(names(g),
> each=nrow(x))[1:nrow(x)]))
> 
> I get
> 
> $a
>   x var1
> 1 1    a
> 2 2    a
> 3 3    a
> 
> $b
>   x var1
> 1 4    a
> 2 5    a
> 3 6    a
> 
> $c
>   x var1
> 1 7    a
> 2 8    a
> 3 9    a
> 
> And I would like to have
> 
> $a
>   x var1
> 1 1    a
> 2 2    a
> 3 3    a
> 
> $b
>   x var1
> 1 4    b
> 2 5    b
> 3 6    b
> 
> $c
>   x var1
> 1 7    c
> 2 8    c
> 3 9    c
> 
> How should I modify my lapply clause to achieve
> this?
> 
> Best regards,
> Lauri
> 
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26)
> i386-apple-darwin8.10.1
> 
> locale:
> C
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets
>  methods   base
> 
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