[R] Data frame of different sized lists in a function call

[Jonathan Greenberg]

I'm hoping to get some "best practice" feedback for constructing a 
function call which takes an undefined set of DIFFERENT length vectors 
-- e.g. say we have two lists:

list1=c(1:10)
list2=c(2:4)

lists = data.frame(list1,list2) coerces those two to be the same length 
(recycling list2 to fill in the missing rows) -- what is a quick way of 
having each of those lists retain their original lengths?  my function 
ultimately should look like:


myfunction = function(lists) {

...

}

I'm hoping this can be done with a single line, so the user doesn't have 
to pre-construct the data.frame before running the function, if at all 
possible.

Thanks!

--j

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Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD
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