On Sep 2, 2009, at 10:50 PM, Peter Meilstrup wrote:
I'm trying to massage some data from Matlab into R. The matlab file
has a "struct array" which when imported into R using the R.matlab
package, becomes an R list with 3+ dimensions, the first of which
corresponds to the structure fields, with corresponding row names,
and the second and third+ dimensions correspond to the dimensions of
the original struct array (as matlab arrays always have 2+
dimensions). For example a 1x1 matlab struct array with three fields
becomes:
> data
, , 1
[,1]
trials List,1002
beforeRun List,8
afterRun List,8
If I load two data files, I would want to concatenate them into a
single list. cbind() doesn't preserve the row names, possibly
because the array has three dimensions?
No. cbind makes matrices. Arrays and matrices are required to have all
elements of the same type, so any coercive function returning an array
would force the elements to have the "lowest common denominator" type,
which is "list" in this case.
> cbind(data1, data2)
data1 data2
[1,] List,1002 List,479
[2,] List,8 List,8
[3,] List,8 List,8
Then I looked into abind(), which is even more puzzling: it
preserves the names and dimensions correctly, but converts the
entries into strings?!
Must be from a non-base package or a devel version. I get
> abind
Error: object 'abind' not found
> abind(list(data1, data2), along=2, force.array=FALSE)
, , 1
[,1] [,2]
trials "0" "1"
beforeRun "2079647.50207592" "0"
afterRun "1" "0"
Is there a quick way to accomplish the effect I want? I want an
output that looks like:
> somebind(data1, data2, along=2)
How about:
list(data1, data2)
... or in this case, because you are starting with two list objects,
you could get the same effect with:
c(data1, data2)
, , 1
[,1] [,2]
trials List,1002 List,479
beforeRun List,8 List,8
afterRun List,8 List,8
Cheers,
Peter
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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT
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