[R] A data frame of data frames

[Thomas Lumley]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 Arne.Muller at aventis.com wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to set up the flowwing data structure in R:
>
> A data frame with 7,000 rows and 4 colums. The rownames have some special
> meaning (they are names of genes). The 1st column per row is itself a data
> frame, and columns 2 to 4 will keep numeric values.
>
> The data frame contained in the 1st column will have 54 rows (with special
> names) and 4 colums (1st col is a response, cols 2- 4 are factors). Each of
> these data frames with the response/factors will be fed into an 3way linear
> model for anova. The other colums of the 1st data will hold the p-values.

I would use a list with the genes in a matrix and the other variables in a
dataframe.

(In fact, I would try to use the data structures that the bioconductor
project has developed for this problem.)

	-thomas