These are great! Thank you!
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 7:14 PM, William Dunlap <wdun...@tibco.com> wrote: > You could do something tricky like > > do.call(cbind, lapply(big.char, as.name)) > dog cat tree > [1,] 1 2 5 > [2,] 2 3 6 > [3,] 3 4 7 > but you are usually better off creating these things as part of a list > and passing that to do.call(cbind, list). > > There is a slight danger of using do.call with cbind. If your > list has a component with the unlikely name 'deparse.level', > then that will be taken as cbind's deparse.level argument, > not as a column of the matrix to be made. > > > Bill Dunlap > TIBCO Software > wdunlap tibco.com > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> I have a cbind type question, please: Suppose I have the following: >> >> dog <- 1:3 >> cat <- 2:4 >> tree <- 5:7 >> >> and a character vector >> big.char <- c("dog","cat","tree") >> >> I want to end up with a matrix that is a "cbind" of dog, cat, and tree. >> This is a toy example. There will be a bunch of variables. >> >> I experimented with "do.call", but all I got was >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> >> Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I still think that do.call >> might be the key, but I'm not sure. >> >> R Version 3-1.3, Windows 7. >> >> Thanks, >> Erin >> >> >> -- >> Erin Hodgess >> Associate Professor >> Department of Mathematical and Statistics >> University of Houston - Downtown >> mailto: erinm.hodg...@gmail.com >> >> [[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. >> > > -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Mathematical and Statistics University of Houston - Downtown mailto: erinm.hodg...@gmail.com [[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.