[R] Building a list

[Noah Silverman]

Hello,

I need to build a "list of lists"

We have 20 groups we are generating MCMC samples for.  There are 10
coefficients, and 10000 MCMC iterations.

I would like to store each iteration by-group in a list.  My problem is
with the first iteration.

Here is a toy example:

Chain <- list()
for (j in 1:10000){
    coef <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)  #would be actual MCMC samples
    Chain[[j]] <- rbind(Chain[[j]], coef)
}

This returns an error, UNLESS I  initialize the first row of Chain[[j]]
with something.

The idea is that for any group, I can quickly extract, plot, average,
etc the values for each coefficient.

for example:

Chain[[5]][,3] will give me all 10,000 values of coefficient 3 for group
5. 

Again, this seems to work, but I can't initialize the chain with a
random value as it will cause problems with the data summary later.
(Each row in Chain[[j]] will be out of sync by 1, subsequently all
summary and plotting work will have to account for this - it can get
messy in a large program.)

Is there an easier way to do this?  Am I missing something?