R help - Mar 2012 - how to bind uneven column (not equal length) into matrix without recycling values

i have 
> x
[1] 1 2 3 4 5 6
> y
[1] 34  5  6
> z<-cbind(x,y)
> z
     x  y
[1,] 1 34
[2,] 2  5
[3,] 3  6
[4,] 4 34
[5,] 5  5
[6,] 6  6

i don't want recycling, instead can we put NA /0 like below> z
     x  y
[1,] 1 34
[2,] 2  5
[3,] 3  6
[4,] 4  NA
[5,] 5  NA
[6,] 6  NA

& want distance matrix


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On 15-03-2012, at 10:08, sagarnikam123 wrote:
> i have 
>> x
> [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6
>> y
> [1] 34  5  6
>> z<-cbind(x,y)
>> z
>     x  y
> [1,] 1 34
> [2,] 2  5
> [3,] 3  6
> [4,] 4 34
> [5,] 5  5
> [6,] 6  6
> 
> i don't want recycling, instead can we put NA /0 like below> z
>     x  y
> [1,] 1 34
> [2,] 2  5
> [3,] 3  6
> [4,] 4  NA
> [5,] 5  NA
> [6,] 6  NA
> 
See earlier thread today on NA - data.frame

library(plyr)
> t(rbind.fill.matrix(matrix(x,nrow=1),matrix(y,nrow=1)))
  [,1] [,2]
1    1   34
2    2    5
3    3    6
4    4   NA
5    5   NA
6    6   NA


Berend

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 5:08 AM, sagarnikam123 <sagarnikam123 at
gmail.com> wrote:
> i have
>> x
> [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6
>> y
> [1] 34 ?5 ?6
>> z<-cbind(x,y)
>> z
> ? ? x ?y
> [1,] 1 34
> [2,] 2 ?5
> [3,] 3 ?6
> [4,] 4 34
> [5,] 5 ?5
> [6,] 6 ?6
>
> i don't want recycling, instead can we put NA /0 like below> z
> ? ? x ?y
> [1,] 1 34
> [2,] 2 ?5
> [3,] 3 ?6
> [4,] 4 ?NA
> [5,] 5 ?NA
> [6,] 6 ?NA
>
> & want distance matrix
>

ts does not recycle so try this:

dist(cbind(x = ts(x), y = ts(y)), method = "max")

If you need the intermediate two column structure then try cbind(x ts(x), y =
ts(y)) as an mts series or  t(t(cbind(x = ts(x), y ts(y)))) as a plain matrix.

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