[R] convert a list to a data frame

[Bert Gunter]

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?do.call


On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Sam Steingold <sds at gnu.org> wrote:
> 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
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>  vectors.Length  vectors.Class  vectors.Mode
>  0       -none-  list
>  0       -none-  list
>  0       -none-  list
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>  [ reached getOption("max.print") -- omitted 4412 rows ]]
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> 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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