[R] Converting a list to a matrix - I still don't think I have it right

[Sean Davis]

Mick,

Does this do it?

mymat <- do.call('rbind',l2)
rownames(mymat) <- names(l2)

Sean

On Feb 17, 2005, at 9:36 AM, michael watson ((IAH-C)) wrote:

> Hi
>
> We have touched on this before, but I don't think I quite got it right.
>
> So I have a list, each element of which is a a vector of 2 numbers:
>
>> l2
> $cat000_a01
> [1] 0.3429944 4.5138244
>
> $cat000_a02
> [1] 0.1929336 4.3064944
>
> $cat000_a03
> [1] -0.2607796  4.1551591
>
> What I actually want to convert this into is a matrix with the names
> (cat000_a01 etc) as row names, the first element of each of the vectors
> forming the first column of the new matrix, and the second element of
> each of the vectors forming the second column:
>
> cat000_a01	0.3429944	4.5138244
> cat000_a02	0.1929336	4.3064944
> cat000_a03	-0.2607796  4.1551591
>
> What was suggested on the list last time was
> matrix(unlist(mylist),nrow=length(mylist)).  But if I do this I get:
>
>> matrix(unlist(l2),nrow=length(l2))
>           [,1]       [,2]
> [1,] 0.3429944  4.3064944
> [2,] 4.5138244 -0.2607796
> [3,] 0.1929336  4.1551591
>
> Which is not what I want.  Here, the second element of the first vector
> in my list has gone into the first column of the new matrix, and that's
> not what I want at all.
>
> Any more help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Mick
>
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