[R] R: cbind

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On 8/8/05, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/8/05, Clark Allan <Allan at stats.uct.ac.za> wrote:
> > 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!
> 
> There are a number of alternatives:
> 
> # 1. just create a list
> 
> x1 <- list(a = 1, b = 1:3, c = 1:4)
> 
> # 2. create a ts object:
> 
> x2 <- do.call("cbind", lapply(x1, ts))
> 
> # 3. create a matrix from the ts object
> 
> x3 <-  unclass(do.call("cbind", lapply(d, ts)))
> tsp(x3) <- NULL
> 

That last one should have been:

x3 <- unclass(x2)
tsp(x3) <- NULL