Hi, May be this helps: library(plyr) res<-aaply(laply(my_list, as.matrix),c(2,3),function(x) x) attr(res,"dimnames")<- NULL identical(res,foo) #[1] TRUE A.K.
----- Original Message ----- From: Murat Tasan <mmu...@gmail.com> To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:13 AM Subject: Re: [R] list of matrices --> array FYI - this is my current method, but somehow i just don't like it ;-) foo <- array(NA, dim = c(4,5,length(my_list))) for(k in 1:length(my_list)) { foo[,,k] <- my_list[[k]] } -m On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Murat Tasan <mmu...@gmail.com> wrote: > i'm somehow embarrassed to even ask this, but is there any built-in > method for doing this: > > my_list <- list() > my_list[[1]] <- matrix(1:20, ncol = 5) > my_list[[2]] <- matrix(20:1, ncol = 5) > > now, knowing that these matrices are identical in dimension, i'd like > to unfold the list to a 2x4x5 (or some other permutation of the dim > sizes) array. > i know i can initialize the array, then loop through my_list to fill > the array, but somehow this seems inelegant. > i also know i can vectorize the matrices and unlist the list, then > build the array from that single vector, but this also seems inelegant > (and an easy place to introduce errors/bugs). > > i can't seem to find any built-in that handles this already... but > maybe i just haven't looked hard enough :-/ > > cheers, > > -m ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.