[R] arrays of arrays

[Michael Bedward]

Hi Sachin,

That's OK - you don't need to know the dimensions up front and you can
add new vectors, or elements to an existing vector, as required.

# empty list to start with
X <- list()

# we get a vector
v1 <- c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

# add it to the ragged array
X <- c(X, list(v1))

# get another couple of vectors and add them as well
v2 <- c(9, 8, 7, 6)
v3 <- c(2, 4, 6, 8)
X <- c(X, list(v2, v3))

# add some more elements to the first vector in X - note double
brackets to access
# the vector directly
X[[1]] <- c(X[[1]], 4, 3, 2, 1)

Michael

On 10 November 2010 16:46,  <sachinthaka.abeywardana at allianz.com.au> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Thanks for that. Its a starting point I guess. But what if I didn't know
> the length of the outer vector is? (i.e. all dimensions are variable). Or
> for that matter I don't actually know what the initial dimensions are going
> to be. All of it is created within a for loop.
>
> I was hoping for something like a C++ vector, where you can specify
> vector<vector<int>> myarray. I'm sure lists is definitely the way to go,
> but not sure how to implement it.
>
> Cheers,
> Sachin
>
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