That blog post refers to the authors own function, as.data.frame.list, that you would have to download from github. It makes data.frame() act quite differently than the usual way. I would not recommend it.
Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 1:53 AM, harini_v <harin...@positiveintegers.com> wrote: > Hi there > > I am Ms. Harini and I am trying to solve a problem with the function > data.frame. The problem I am trying to solve is similar to the one listed > under the title Example Four in this website: > http://www.r-bloggers.com/converting-a-list-to-a-data-frame/ > > For some reason when I try to replicate the results in my R console, I get > this error: > test4 <- list('Row1'=letters[1:5], 'Row2'=letters[1:7], > 'Row3'=letters[8:14]) > > as.data.frame(test4) > > Error in data.frame(Row1 = c("a", "b", "c", "d", "e"), Row2 = c("a", "b", > : > arguments imply differing number of rows: 5, 7 > > It says that it can’t do what I am asking it to do because the lengths of > the rows are different. But somehow it has worked on the above website. > > This is an old article (written in 2013). My question is this: Would you > know if the way data.frame handles lists has been re written in some way? I > couldn’t find anything to answer my question on the web, so I thought I > should email you. > > Thank you for the time you are taking to read my email and trying to help > me. > Sincerely, > Harini > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Want-to-convert-list-with-vectore-of-dis-similar-lengths-to-data-frame-tp4704196.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
