[Rd] stack problem

[Michael Lawrence]

Agreed. Just putting that out there.

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> One would normally want the original order that so that one can stack
> a list, operate on the result and then unstack it back with the
> unstacked result having the same ordering as the original.
>
> LL <- list(z = 1:3, a = list())
> # since we can't do s <- stack(LL,. drop = FALSE) do this instead:
> s <- transform(stack(LL), ind = factor(as.character(ind), levels = names(LL)))
> unstack(s)
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> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Michael Lawrence
> <lawrence.michael at gene.com> wrote:
>> I'll add the drop argument but I'm wondering about the order of the
>> levels. Should we set the levels to unique(names(x)) or sort them,
>> too?
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Gabor Grothendieck
>> <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> stack() seems to drop empty levels.  Perhaps there could be a
>>> drop=FALSE argument if one wanted all the original levels.  In the
>>> example below, we may wish to retain level "b" in s$ind even though
>>> component LL$b has length 0.
>>>
>>>> LL <- list(a = 1:3, b = list())
>>>> s <- stack(LL)
>>>> str(s)
>>> 'data.frame':   3 obs. of  2 variables:
>>>  $ values: int  1 2 3
>>>  $ ind   : Factor w/ 1 level "a": 1 1 1
>>>
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