R help - Oct 2010 - Merging nested lists

Hello All,

I have multiple "list of lists" in the form of 

Mylist1[[N]][[K]]$Name_i, 

with N=1..6, K=1..3, and i=1..7. Each Name_i is a matrix. I have 30 of these
objects Mylist1, Mylist2, ...

I would like to merge these lists by each Name_i using rbind, but I couldn't
figure out how to do it. What I want at the end is a single "list of
lists", again in the form of Mylist[[N]][[K]]$Name_i. Manually doing it is
not feasible given the large number of Mylist objects.

Thanks in advance,

Alex

On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Alex P. wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have multiple "list of lists" in the form of
>
> Mylist1[[N]][[K]]$Name_i,
>
> with N=1..6, K=1..3, and i=1..7. Each Name_i is a matrix. I have 30 of
these objects Mylist1, Mylist2, ...
>
> I would like to merge these lists by each Name_i using rbind, but I 
> couldn't figure out how to do it. What I want at the end is a single 
> "list of lists", again in the form of Mylist[[N]][[K]]$Name_i.
Manually
> doing it is not feasible given the large number of Mylist objects.
>
Turn them into a single array of mode 'list', then do the rbind'ing,
and
save the result as an array (or see ?relist for imposing the nested 
structure of the orignal lists)

Something like:

objs <- paste('MyList',1:30,sep='')
big.list <- lapply( objs, get )
for (i in 1:4) big.list <- unlist(big.list,recursive=FALSE)
dim( big.list ) <- c(30, 6, 3, 7 )
res <- apply( big.list, 2:4, rbind )
dim(res) <- c( 30, 3, 7 )


HTH,

Chuck
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Alex
>
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