[R] Splitting a set of vectors in a list

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

If I understand correctly, try this:

as.data.frame(lapply(mylist, `[`, 1:max(unlist(lapply(mylist, length)))))

On 13/03/2008, John Kane <jrkrideau at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> I have a set of character vectors of uneven length
>  that I have stored in a list.  I can easily enough get
>  any column of them  using lapply but what I want is to
>  be able to create a matrix of them.  Other than some
>  kind of brute force looping approach I have drawn a
>  blank.
>
>  Would somebody please suggest something? Thanks
>
>  Example.
>
>  mylist <- list(aa=c("cat","peach" ), bb=c("dog",
>  "apple", "iron"),
>          cc = c("rabbit", "orange", "zinc", "silk"))
>  myfun <- function(dff) dff[1]
>  vect1  <- unlist(lapply(mylist, myfun))
>
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