Hi Wolfgang, I'm not sure exactly what you want, but the ldply in the package plyr can help you make a data.frame from a list of data.frames:
library(plyr) dfa <- data.frame(cola = LETTERS[1:5], colb = c(1:5)) dfb <- data.frame(cola = LETTERS[1:5], colb = c(1:5)) df.lst <- list(dfa.name = dfa, dfb.name = dfb) # If you want to use column number ldply(df.lst, function(cur.df){return(cur.df[, 2])}) # If the column name is always the same ldply(df.lst, function(cur.df){return(cur.df$colb)}) # Use the entire data.frame ldply(df.lst, function(cur.df){return(cur.df)}) # The latter can also be done with do.call do.call(rbind, df.lst) Hope this helps, Ulrik On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 at 16:07 Wolfgang Waser <wa...@frankenfoerder-fg.de> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a list of 7 data frames, each data frame having 24 rows (hour of > the day) and 5 columns (weeks) with a total of 5 x 24 values > > I would like to combine all 7 columns of week 1 (and 2 ...) in a > separate data frame for hourly calculations, e.g. > > apply(new.data.frame,1,mean) > > In some way sapply (lapply) works, but I cannot directly select columns > of the original data frames in the list. As a workaround I have to > select a range of values: > > > sapply(list_of_dataframes,"[",1:24) > > Values 1:24 give the first column, 25:48 the second and so on. > > Is there an easier / more direct way to select for specific columns > instead of selecting a range of values, avoiding loops? > > > Cheers, > > Wolfgang > > ______________________________________________ > 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.