[Rd] replicating lists

[Jonathan Rougier]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, David James wrote:

> Yes, I agree that the work-around needs some care, but I'm not sure 
> we need to wrap the list itself -- we're simply using properties of 
> "[" on lists.  If the subscript is rep(1, 10), then we'll get the 
> first element 10 times (which is *not* replicating the list).
> To get the replication we need to index every element in 
> the list as many times as required.

Not sure I follow you here.  I want n copies of an arbitrary list, as a
list, so list(fred)[rep(1, n)] is desired, where fred is the list I want
replicated.  Unfortuntely this does not solve the underlying problem,
which is that I want to do

> tmp <- array(fred, c(3, 4))

which breaks because "rep", invoked by "array", currently fails to handle
complex lists.  However I am happy to report that

> tmp <- array(list(fred)[rep(1, 12)], c(3, 4))

does work as expected:

> tmp[[3, 4]] # fred again!

So that's the work-around in my particular case.

Cheers, Jonathan.

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