[R] Transforming a list to a vector with associated levels

[David Winsemius]

My guess is that you are dimly remembering stack(.)

t <- list(A=c(4,1,4),B=c(3,7,9,2))

 > stack(t)
   values ind
1      4   A
2      1   A
3      4   A
4      3   B
5      7   B
6      9   B
7      2   B

If you needed the internal factor of ind that is possible as well

 > as.numeric(stack(t)$ind)
[1] 1 1 1 2 2 2 2

so
data.frame(t=stack(t)$values, levels=as.numeric(stack(t)$ind))

--  
David Winsemius



On Nov 18, 2008, at 10:15 PM, Blanchette, Marco wrote:

> I am pretty sure that I came across a function that creates a vector  
> of levels from a list but I just can't remember.
>
> Basically, I have something like
>
>> t <- list(A=c(4,1,4),B=c(3,7,9,2))
>> t
> $A
> [1] 4 1 4
>
> $B
> [1] 3 7 9 2
>
> And I would like to get something like the following:
> t levels
> 4 1
> 1 1
> 4 1
> 3 2
> 7 2
> 9 2
> 2 2
>
> I tried unlist without success. I also do remember that there is a  
> corresponding function that create a list of t's according to the  
> level from the matrix a draw but no luck to remember it.
>
> Thanks
>
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