[R] unlist & dataframes

[Naira]

Thanks a lot :)

It is doing exactly what I want 

Naira


David Freedman wrote:
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> try
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> newdata=do.call(rbind,l)
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> David Freedman, Atlanta
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> Naira wrote:
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>> Dear all,
>> 
>> I would like to know whether it is possible to unlist elements and keep
>> the original format of the data.
>> To make it more clear, let me give an exemple:
>> I have a list l of dataframes that I created with apply but which looks
>> like this:
>> 
>> x1=data.frame(Name=LETTERS[1:2],Age=1:2)
>> x2=data.frame(Name=LETTERS[3:4],Age=3:4)
>> l=list(x1,x2)
>> l
>> [[1]]
>>   Name Age
>> 1    A   1
>> 2    B   2
>> 
>> [[2]]
>>   Name Age
>> 1    C   3
>> 2    D   4
>> 
>> I would like to unlist l to create a dataframe with 2 columns and 4 rows
>> but keeping the format of Name (character) and Age (numeric).
>> 
>> Now when I unlist l, I obtain :
>> 
>> unlist(l)
>> Name1 Name2  Age1  Age2 Name1 Name2  Age1  Age2
>>     1     2     1     2     1     2     3     4
>> 
>> Is there a way to at least obtain something like
>> A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4 as result from the unlist??
>> 
>> Thanks a lot for your replies
>> Naira
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