R help - Jul 2008 - combining lists of pairs

Hi everybody,

This has been causing me some trouble:

I want to combine several lists of pairs into a single?vector but keep the pairs
together. The lists are of the form:
(1)?x1 x2 x3... N? 
(2) y1 y2 y3..? N

I would like to keep it this way, simply appending one list to another, e.g.
(1) x1i x2i... x1j x2j... N
(2) etc.

A?method like c(...) does not achieve this. It creates a single list,
disregarding the pairs.

Is there a more efficient way of doing it?

Thanks!
Oliver Marshall

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On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, olvrmrs at aol.com wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> This has been causing me some trouble:
>
> I want to combine several lists of pairs into a single?vector but keep the
pairs together. The lists are of the form:
> (1)?x1 x2 x3... N?
> (2) y1 y2 y3..? N
>
> I would like to keep it this way, simply appending one list to another,
e.g.
> (1) x1i x2i... x1j x2j... N
> (2) etc.
>
> A?method like c(...) does not achieve this. It creates a single list,
disregarding the pairs.
Then you do not literally have a list of pairs.

You need to do this when posting:
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Note:
> lp <- list(c(1,2),c(3,4),c(5,6))
> lp2 <- list(c(1,2),c(3,4),c(5,6))
> c(lp,lp2) # HA! A list of all pairs.
So c(...) works on a list of pairs.

====
If what you have is a pair of vectors of atomic elements stored as a list, 
you can use rbind( as.data.frame(list1), as.data.frame(list2) , ... )

If not, I might suggest you either convert your structure to a list of 
pairs, or a data.frame, and use the one of the above approaches.

Or tell us what your object really is so we might better advise.

Hint see:

 	?str

and use it before replying.

HTH,

Chuck

>
> Is there a more efficient way of doing it?
>
> Thanks!
> Oliver Marshall
>
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