[R] How to join matrices of different row length from a list

[David Winsemius]

On Jan 6, 2011, at 6:23 AM, Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote:

> try this:
>
> matLis <- list(matrix(1:4, 2, 2), matrix(1:6, 3, 2),
>    matrix(2:1, 1, 2))
>
> n <- max(sapply(matLis, nrow))
> do.call(cbind, lapply(matLis, function (x)
>    rbind(x, matrix(, n-nrow(x), ncol(x)))))

It's good that you solved the OP's question so neatly, since the  
alternate solution I was going to propose turns out to be for a  
different problem. Had the problem been for binding by row and padding  
with NA's, there is a ready-made function in the plyr package,  
rbind.fill.matrix(). No cbind.fill or cbind.fill.matrix, yet. It looks  
as though switching the roles of column and row in either of your  
respective solutions could create a general solution though.

-- 
David.
>
>
> I hope it helps.
>
> Best,
> Dimitris
>
>
> On 1/6/2011 11:56 AM, emj83 wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have several matrix in a list, for example:
>> e
>> [[1]]
>>      [,1] [,2]
>> [1,]    1    3
>> [2,]    2    4
>>
>> [[2]]
>>      [,1] [,2]
>> [1,]    1    4
>> [2,]    2    5
>> [3,]    3    6
>>
>> [[3]]
>>      [,1] [,2]
>> [1,]    2    1
>>
>> I would like to join them by column i.e.
>>      [,1] [,2]   [,3] [,4][,5] [,6]
>> [1,]    1    3   1    4    2    1
>> [2,]    2    4   2    5   NA  NA
>> [3,]   NA  NA  3    6   NA   NA
>>
>> I have tried  do.call(cbind,e) but I get this error message as the  
>> rows are
>> of different length-
>> Error in function (..., deparse.level = 1)  :
>>   number of rows of matrices must match (see arg 2)
>>
>> Can anyone advise me please?
>>
>> Thanks Emma
>>
>>
>
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