Greg Snow wrote: > The '[[' only returns a single element from a data structure
I know but that is precisely what I find arbitrary. Anyway you are right that it would still return the kind of object, only subsetted, which is not I want. As someone kindly pointed out to me offline, besides the unlist trick posted before, you can also achieve the desired result with m <- as.matrix(l) dimnames(m) <- NULL -- O.L. ______________________________________________ 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.