[R] Something similar to data.frame, but allows variables with unique lengths?

[Domenico Vistocco]

Jason Rupert wrote:
> I have a tightly coupled collection of variables with different lengths and types (some characters and others numerics).  I looked at the documentation for data.frame, but indicates that it expects all variables to have the same length, i.e. number of elements.  
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I think you are looking for the list obiect (the data.frame is a 
particular list with the constrain that each element have to be of the 
same length).
See:
?list
chapter 6 of An Introduction to R

Ciao,
domenico
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> I was hoping the "See Also" documentation for data.frame would have helped, but it did not have any good leads.  
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> Here is a list of data I would like to store together:
> (FileName (character string), 
>  HighValue (numeric),
>  LowValue (numeric), 
>  Units (character), 
>  OthersValues (array of numerics), 
>  Descriptor (character string))
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> By any chance is there a generic object type feature within R to store such data together in one variable?  
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> Thank you for any details and leads you can provide. 
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