On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:32 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: >> Thanks all! This is perfect, and very R-ish: never where a novice >> would expect it to be. > > Well, since `unlist` is linked in the See Also on the help page for `list`, > I can only hope you meant that in complete jest. > More or less. I would have expected that to transform a 'list' into a 'vector' I should look into 'as.vector' (or its See Also), and I would have never guessed to look for 'unlist'.
R documentation is sometimes (often?) hard to parse, and when learning R more often than not you're looking in the wrong place. But yes, it was intended as humour (although I did expect to get grilled). > As the Posting Guide says: "... sometimes `read the manual' is the > appropriate response". > I did, but I was on the wrong track. It actually hasn't occurred to me to check ?list, but See Also in both ?as.vector and ?simplify2array does not link to 'unlist'. Since these are the two places where I turned to in the first place, and I have also played extensively with sapply(..., simplify=...) arguments, and there was nothing obvious in their respective See Also, I figured that I did my homework reasonably well. Regards Liviu ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
