[R] concatenating lists elementwise

[Huntsinger, Reid]

I don't know of a way other than brute force:

> list.3 <- list()
> for (i in union(names(list.1),names(list.2))) 
      list.3[[i]] <- union(list.1[[i]],list.2[[i]])
> list.3
$temperature
[1] "hot"      "cold"     "lukewarm"

$size
[1] "big"     "medium"  "massive" "tiny"   

I suppose one could write a method for "merge" for lists.

Reid Huntsinger

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Subject: [R] concatenating lists elementwise



Hi

How do I concatenate two lists element-by-element?

Example:

list.1 <- list(temperature=c("hot","cold") , size=c("big","medium"))
list.2 <- list(temperature=c("lukewarm")   , size=c("massive","tiny"))


list.wanted  <- list(temperature=c("hot","cold","lukewarm") ,
                       size=c("big","medium","massive","tiny"))



(the lists are dimnames() of an array).


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Robin Hankin
Uncertainty Analyst
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