[R] Assigning a vector to every element of a list.

Peter Ehlers ehlers at ucalgary.ca
Tue Jul 3 20:39:44 CEST 2012


On 2012-07-03 09:47, Spencer Maynes wrote:
> Thanks guys for the help, I'm going to go with Patrick Burns answer because
> it seems to work the best for my situation, but these all seem like they
> should work.

Patrick's solution is similar to Gabor's, but, personally,
I favour Gabor's. Seems neatest and simplest to me.

Peter Ehlers

>
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 2:51 AM, Patrick Burns <pburns at pburns.seanet.com>wrote:
>
>> b <- rep(list(d), length(b))
>>
>>
>> On 02/07/2012 23:16, Spencer Maynes wrote:
>>
>>> I have a vector d of unknown length, and a list b of unknown length. I
>>> would like to replace every element of b with d. Simply writing b<-d does
>>> not work as R tries to fit every element of d to a different element of d,
>>> and b<-rep(d,length(b)) does not work either as it makes a list of
>>> length length(d)*length(b) not a list of length(b). I know how to do this
>>> with a for loop, but I feel that there has to be a more efficient way. Any
>>> suggestions?
>>>
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