[R] How to rbind list of vectors with unequal vector lengths?

[johannes rara]

I have tried it, but it does not seem to work with vectors, only data.frames

> do.call(rbind.fill, l)
NULL
>

-J

2010/11/8 Erik Iverson <eriki at ccbr.umn.edu>:
> Then one solution is to use
> rbind.fill from the plyr package.
>
> johannes rara wrote:
>>
>> This is the ideal result (data.frame):
>>
>>> result
>>
>>  names X1 X2 X3
>> 1     a  1  2 NA
>> 2     b  1  2  3
>>
>> 2010/11/8 Erik Iverson <eriki at ccbr.umn.edu>:
>>>
>>> So what do you want the matrix to
>>> look like, since the number of columns
>>> will be different between the two rows?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> johannes rara wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, data.frame or matrix.
>>>>
>>>> -J
>>>>
>>>> 2010/11/8 Erik Iverson <eriki at ccbr.umn.edu>:
>>>>>
>>>>> What class of object / structure do you exactly want
>>>>> in the end?  A matrix, a data.frame, a vector?
>>>>>
>>>>> johannes rara wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How to rbind these vectors from a list?:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> l <- list(a = c(1, 2), b = c(1, 2, 3))
>>>>>>> l
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $a
>>>>>> [1] 1 2
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $b
>>>>>> [1] 1 2 3
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> do.call(rbind, l)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  [,1] [,2] [,3]
>>>>>> a    1    2    1
>>>>>> b    1    2    3
>>>>>> Warning message:
>>>>>> In function (..., deparse.level = 1)  :
>>>>>>  number of columns of result is not a multiple of vector length (arg
>>>>>> 1)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -J
>>>>>>
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