[R] converting a list to a data.frame

[Patrick Connolly]

On Tue, 03-Apr-2007 at 01:55PM +0200, Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote:

|> try something like this:
|> 
|> lis <- list(c(1,2,4), c(4,5,2,1), c(3,4,6,3), c(3,1,76,4,2))
|> ##########
|> n.max <- max(sapply(lis, length))
|> val <- NA # what to fill in
|> fill <- function(x) c(x, rep(val, n.max - length(x)))
|> as.data.frame(do.call(rbind, lapply(lis, fill)))

I think that should be cbind, not rbind.



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