[R] convert a list to a data frame

Sam Steingold sds at gnu.org
Wed Apr 4 18:34:57 CEST 2012


sorry, google does give a good start.

> Google on "R convert list to data frame".

 as.data.frame(do.call("rbind",a))

returns an object which I don't understand.
> summary(f)
 name.Length  name.Class  name.Mode    status         
 1          -none-     character    Length:4445       
 1          -none-     character    Class :character  
 1          -none-     character    Mode  :character  
 1          -none-     character                      
 1          -none-     character                      
 1          -none-     character                      
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 1          -none-     character                      
 vectors.Length  vectors.Class  vectors.Mode
 0       -none-  list                       
 0       -none-  list                       
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 0       -none-  list                       
 0       -none-  list                       
 [ reached getOption("max.print") -- omitted 4412 rows ]]

this is not a data frame I am used to.

why do f$v and f$ve return the same as f$vectors?!




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