[R] Question on list object

Henrique Dallazuanna wwwhsd at gmail.com
Wed Apr 27 19:54:10 CEST 2011


Try this:

sapply(listObj, '[', 1:max(sapply(listObj, length)))

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Bogaso Christofer
<bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all, let say, I have following list object:
>
>
>
> listObj <- vector("list", length = 3)
>
> listObj[[1]] <- rnorm(3)
>
> listObj[[2]] <- rnorm(4)
>
> listObj[[3]] <- rnorm(5)
>
>
>
> Now I want to convert above list into a Matrix. Ofcourse I can do it using
> "Reduce("rbind", listObj)". However as you notice that as elements of that
> list are arbitrary length vectors, I cant use this trick. What I want is to
> have a matrix with 3x5 dimension, where the remaining element of each row
> with be filled with NA, i.e I want :
>
>
>
> rbind(c(listObj[[1]], c(NA, NA)), c(listObj[[2]], c(NA)),listObj[[3]])
>
>
>
> Is there any better way on how I can do that more directly?
>
>
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
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