[R] list of lists question

[Liaw, Andy]

> From: Karla Sartor
> 
> Hello all,
> As a general programming question I can't seem to figure out 
> how to make 
> a list of lists in R.
> As matrices won't work as they have to be rectangular.
> 
> I am sure that there is an easy solution but...
> 
> the specific situation is this:
> - I have created a Tukey confidence interval table and have 
> listed the 
> means that are not significantly different
> - then using these not significantly different pairs I have 
> created the 
> groups of means that are not significantly different from each other
> the issue then is that many of these lists are subsets of other lists 
> and I need to check for this.
> 
> Below is a little program is illustrate the issue
> 
>  > a=c(1,1,1,1,1)                  # generate the first list
>  > b=c(2,2,2)                        # generate a second list
>  > c=c(a,b)                           #combine them
>  > cat(c, "\n")                        # and print
> 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2                   #  this is 1-D!!! ahh
>  > d=list(a,b)                        # make a list of a and b
>  > d                                       #  and print
> [[1]]                                      #this is exactly 
> what I want, 
> but continue
> [1] 1 1 1 1 1
> 
> [[2]]
> [1] 2 2 2
> 
>  > e=list(d,a)                           # now on the next 
> iteration I 
> need to add another list to this list of lists
>  > e                                         # and print
> [[1]]                                       # ahh all hell has broken 
> loose and this is not what I want
> [[1]][[1]]                               #  desired result below
> [1] 1 1 1 1 1
> 
> [[1]][[2]]
> [1] 2 2 2
> 
> 
> [[2]]
> [1] 1 1 1 1 1
> 
> -------------
> desired result
> 
> #wrong code but this is what I want to happen
> a=c(1,1,1,1,1,1,1)
> for(i in 1:5) {
>     a=list(a,1:5)
> }
> 
> output I want is (something like)
> [1] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
> [2] 1 2 3 4 5
> [3] 1 2 3 4 5
> [4] 1 2 3 4 5
> [5] 1 2 3 4 5
> [6] 1 2 3 4 5
> 
> so then I could call cat(a[1]) and get 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 and 
> cat(a[2]) and 
> get 1 2 3 4 5
> 
> Anyone know the answer (hopefully simple)

Indeed:  Lists are vectors.  You use c() to concatenate vectors, so you also
use it for lists.  E.g.,

> a <- list(rep(1, 5))
> for (i in 1:2) a <- c(a, list(1:5))
> a
[[1]]
[1] 1 1 1 1 1

[[2]]
[1] 1 2 3 4 5

[[3]]
[1] 1 2 3 4 5

Andy


 
> Cheers,
> 
> Karla Sartor
> 
> 
> 
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> Karla Sartor
> Montana State University - LRES
> ksartor at montana.edu
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