Hi Mark,

Try

do.call(rbind, tmp[!sapply(tmp, is.null)])

HTH,
Jorge


On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Mark Ebbert <> wrote:

> Dear R gurus,
>
> I trying to convert a list of data frames to one data frame, but one of the
> values within the list is NULL, so I get the error "arguments imply
> differing number of rows." Do you know of a quick way to tell R to combine
> all that are not null? Here is a simple example:
>
> >
> tmp<-list(l1=data.frame(col1=c(1,2,3),col2=c(2,3,4)),l2=NULL,l3=data.frame(col1=c(3,4,5),col2=c(4,5,6)))
> > mtp
> Error: object 'mtp' not found
> > tmp
> $l1
>  col1 col2
> 1    1    2
> 2    2    3
> 3    3    4
>
> $l2
> NULL
>
> $l3
>  col1 col2
> 1    3    4
> 2    4    5
> 3    5    6
>
> > tmp.d<-as.data.frame(tmp)
> Error in data.frame(l1 = list(col1 = c(1, 2, 3), col2 = c(2, 3, 4)), l2 =
> NULL,  :
>  arguments imply differing number of rows: 3, 0
>
> I have also tried doing "do.call("cbind",tmp)"
>
> I appreciate your help!
>
> Mark
>
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