[R] replicate data.frame n times

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Wed Oct 12 03:53:38 CEST 2011


On Oct 11, 2011, at 4:22 PM, Bert Gunter wrote:

> Replicate the row indices?
>
> x[rep(seq_len(nrow(x)), k), ]

Or the column indices.

x[ , rep(seq_len(length(x)), k) ]

--  
David,
>
> -- Bert
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Martin Batholdy
> <batholdy at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> is there a way to replicate a data.frame like you can replicate the  
>> entries
>> of a vector (with the repeat-function)?
>>
>> I want to do this:
>>
>> x <- data.frame(x, x)
>> (where x is a data.frame).
>>
>>
>> but n times.
>>
>>
>>
>> And it should be as cpu / memory efficient as possible, since n is  
>> pretty
>> big in my case.
>>
>>
>>
>> thanks for any suggestions!
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>
>
>
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>
> Bert Gunter
> Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics
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David Winsemius, MD
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