hi all are we able to combine column vectors of different lengths such that the result appears in matrix form? e.g. a=1 b=1:3 d=1:4 then z=CBIND(a,b,d) 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 i stil want the following! z[,1]=1 z[,2]=1:3 z[,3]=1:5 i made up the name of this function. we could use "cbind" but it does not seem to allows this! thanking you in advance. / allan