Try this:

unlist(lapply(l, t))


On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Naira <nanao@psb.ugent.be> wrote:

>
> I have forgotten to say that the elements in the list are not necessarily
> equal... meaning that x1 and x2 are from different dimensions so I can't
> use
> data.frame(l)
>
> More suitable example:
>
> x1=data.frame(Name=LETTERS[1:2],Age=1:2)
> x2=data.frame(Name=LETTERS[3:5],Age=3:5)
> l=list(x1,x2)
> l
>  l
> [[1]]
>  Name Age
> 1    A   1
> 2    B   2
>
> [[2]]
>  Name Age
> 1    C   3
> 2    D   4
> 3    E   5
>
> Naira
>
>
> Naira wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I would like to know whether it is possible to unlist elements and keep
> > the original format of the data.
> > To make it more clear, let me give an exemple:
> > I have a list l of dataframes that I created with apply but which looks
> > like this:
> >
> > x1=data.frame(Name=LETTERS[1:2],Age=1:2)
> > x2=data.frame(Name=LETTERS[3:4],Age=3:4)
> > l=list(x1,x2)
> > l
> > [[1]]
> >   Name Age
> > 1    A   1
> > 2    B   2
> >
> > [[2]]
> >   Name Age
> > 1    C   3
> > 2    D   4
> >
> > I would like to unlist l to create a dataframe with 2 columns and 4 rows
> > but keeping the format of Name (character) and Age (numeric).
> >
> > Now when I unlist l, I obtain :
> >
> > unlist(l)
> > Name1 Name2  Age1  Age2 Name1 Name2  Age1  Age2
> >     1     2     1     2     1     2     3     4
> >
> > Is there a way to at least obtain something like
> > A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4 as result from the unlist??
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your replies
> > Naira
> >
> >
> >
>
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