[R] convert list without same component length to matrix

[arun]

Hi,
You can also use:
sapply(l,`[`,1:4)
#     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
#[1,]    1    3    4    2    3
#[2,]    2    4    2    4    5
#[3,]    3    5    5    6    7
#[4,]    7    6    7    3    2
A.K.



----- Original Message -----
From: D. Rizopoulos <d.rizopoulos at erasmusmc.nl>
To: Al Ehan <aehan3616 at gmail.com>
Cc: "r-help at r-project.org" <r-help at r-project.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2012 4:19 AM
Subject: Re: [R] convert list without same component length to matrix

try this:

l <- list(c(1,2,3,7), c(3,4,5,6,3), c(4,2,5,7), c(2,4,6,3,2), c(3,5,7,2))

sapply(l, head, 4)


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris


On 11/1/2012 9:11 AM, Al Ehan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have this lame question. I want to convert a list (each with varies in
> length) to matrix with same row length by eliminating vectors outside the
> needed range.
> For example:
>
> l<-list(NULL)
> l[[1]]=1,2,3.7
> l[[2]]=3,4,5,6,3
> l[[3]]=4,2,5,7
> l[[4]]=2,4,6,3,2
> l[[5]]=3,5,7,2
>
>
> #so say I want to only have 4 rows and 5 column in my matrix (or
> data.frame) and eliminating the 5th index value in l[[2]] and l[[4]]
> #what is the simplest code would be? I actually have hundreds of the list
> components.
>
> thanks
>
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