[R] Converting data frame into multidimensional array

[Luk Arbuckle]

I need something that will work with any, possibly very large, data
frame.  This dataset is only a very small example.

On 2011-10-21, at 17:31, David L Carlson <dcarlson at tamu.edu> wrote:

> How about?
>
>> x <- array(Titanic, dim=c(4,2,2,2))
>> str(x>
> num [1:4, 1:2, 1:2, 1:2] 0 0 35 0 0 0 17 0 118 154 ...
>
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> David L Carlson
> Associate Professor of Anthropology
> Texas A&M University
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> Subject: [R] Converting data frame into multidimensional array
>
> Consider the following data frame
>
> X <- data.frame(Titanic)
>
> Does anyone know of an easy way to convert X into a multidimensional
> array?  Example that doesn't work
>
> X <- as.array(X, dim=c(4,2,2,2))
>
> To do what I need, X needs to be converted into an array of dimensions
> c(4,2,2,2) in this case, not a table.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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