[R] Question on list object

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

Try this:

sapply(listObj, '[', 1:max(sapply(listObj, length)))

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Bogaso Christofer
<bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all, let say, I have following list object:
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> listObj <- vector("list", length = 3)
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> listObj[[1]] <- rnorm(3)
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> listObj[[2]] <- rnorm(4)
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> listObj[[3]] <- rnorm(5)
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> Now I want to convert above list into a Matrix. Ofcourse I can do it using
> "Reduce("rbind", listObj)". However as you notice that as elements of that
> list are arbitrary length vectors, I cant use this trick. What I want is to
> have a matrix with 3x5 dimension, where the remaining element of each row
> with be filled with NA, i.e I want :
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>
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> rbind(c(listObj[[1]], c(NA, NA)), c(listObj[[2]], c(NA)),listObj[[3]])
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> Is there any better way on how I can do that more directly?
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> Thanks and regards,
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