[R] Splitting a set of vectors in a list

[John Kane]

Ideally something like this:
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t(cbind( c("cat" ,  "peach" , NA, NA), bbb  <- c("dog"
,  "apple" ,"iron", NA),
ccb <- c("rabbit" ,"orange" ,"zinc" ,  "silk" ))) 

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Thanks

--- Erik Iverson <iverson at biostat.wisc.edu> wrote:

> What would you want your output matrix to look like
> given mylist?
> 
> John Kane 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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