Gabor, thanks for the reply. However, the output of matrix(list(1, 11, 111, 2, 22, 222), nc = 2, dimnames = list(NULL, c("a", "b"))) is a matrix of lists.
foo <- matrix(list(1, 11, 111, 2, 22, 222), nc = 2, dimnames = list(NULL, c("a", "b"))) foo[,'a'] # returns a list One possible solution is as follows, though I wonder if this step could be avoided in the first place through more careful coding of the preliminary steps: new.result <- matrix(unlist(result), ncol=ncol(result), dimnames=list(NULL, colnames(result))) # I use unlist() Andrew On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com>wrote: > Try this: > > matrix(list(1, 11, 111, 2, 22, 222), nc = 2, dimnames = list(NULL, c("a", > "b"))) > > or > > out <- list(1, 11, 111, 2, 22, 222) > dim(out) <- c(3, 2) > colnames(out) <- c("a", "b") > > On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Andrew Yee <y...@post.harvard.edu> wrote: > > Take the following code: > > foo <- list() > > > > foo[[1]] <- list(a=1, b=2) > > foo[[2]] <- list(a=11, b=22) > > foo[[3]] <- list(a=111, b=222) > > > > result <- do.call(rbind, foo) > > result[,'a'] > > > > In this case, result[,'a'] shows a list. Is there a more elegant way such > > that result is a "regular" matrix of vectors? I imagine there are manual > > ways of going about this, but I was wondering if there was an obvious > step > > that I was missing. > > > > Thanks, > > Andrew > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.