[R] How to flatten a tree (based on list) to a certain depth?

[Steve Lianoglou]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Steve Lianoglou
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>> Does `unlist(root, recursive=FALSE)` get you what you want?
...
> My example has only 2 levels.
>
> But my questions is not limited to a particular level. The
> nonrecursive version flatten the first level. But what if the tree is
> of n level and I want to flatten it to m levels (where m < n)?

I'm guessing you're going to have to write your own function for that
... using loops, or recursion.

-steve

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