[R] Creating an array of lists

Gang Chen gangchen6 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 8 00:14:21 CEST 2008


Yes, both array of lists and list of lists work well as desired. Thanks a lot!

Gang

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Patrick Burns <pburns at pburns.seanet.com> wrote:
> myListArray <- array(list(NULL), c(3,2))
> myListArray[[1,2]] <- list(letters, 1:4)
>
> Patrick Burns
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>
> Gang Chen wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to store some number of outputs from running a bunch of
>> analyses such as lm() into an array. I know how to do this with a
>> one-dimensional array (vector) by creating
>>
>> myArray <- vector(mode='list', length=10)
>>
>> and storing each lm() result into a component of myArray.
>>
>> My question is, how can I do this for a multiple dimensional array? It
>> seems array() does not have such a 'mode' option as in vector(). Any
>> alternatives?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Gang



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