Frankly, I'm not sure what you mean, but presumably

unlist(yourlist, recurs=FALSE)

is not it, right?

-- Bert

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Jeroen Ooms <jeroen.ooms@stat.ucla.edu>wrote:

> I am looking for a function to flatten a list to a list of only 1
> level deep. Very similar to unlist, however I don't want to turn it
> into a vector because then everything will be casted to character
> vectors:
>
> x <- list(name="Jeroen", age=27, married=FALSE,
> home=list(country="Netherlands", city="Utrecht"))
> unlist(x)
>
> This function sort of does it:
>
> flatlist <- function(mylist){
>  lapply(rapply(mylist, enquote, how="unlist"), eval)
> }
>
> flatlist(x)
>
> However it is a bit slow. Is there a more native way?
>
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