[R] initiate elements in a dataframe with lists

[Ivan Calandra]

At first I was actually thinking about this situation, which cannot work:|
data.frame(x = 1:3, y = list(1:2, 1:3, 1:4))

|But I had never thought about this:|
df$y <-list(1:2, 1:3, 1:4)|
And it actually makes sense. The final requirement here is that all 
columns must have the same length!

I'm not sure though why one would need that. Why not use lists in that case?

Thanks!
Ivan

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On 25/07/2018 11:56, Juan Telleria Ruiz de Aguirre wrote:
>> Just for my understanding:
>> Is a data.frame with list columns still a data.frame? Isn't it then a list?
> * A data.frame (or tibble) is a list of columns.
> * In which each column must be from the same data type, in this case list().
>


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