Greg Hirson wrote: > > I'd approach this by first making a matrix, then converting to a data > frame with appropriate types.
Well, I knew that matrixes are faster for numerics, but I also knew that the required conversion to character would be a show-stopper. My second wisdom was bogus. Your version is 30% faster on my computer. Dieter -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Fast-nested-List-data-frame-tp998871p998897.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.