Dear Gabor, *perfect*, precisely what I was looking for.
Many thanks, Marius On 2010-12-29, at 23:19 , Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Marius Hofert <m_hof...@web.de> wrote: >> Dear Jim, >> >> thanks for your quick response. Here is what I try to achieve: >> >> ## list containing some data >> l <- list( >> list( >> list( >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2), >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2), >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2), >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2) >> ), >> list( >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2), >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2), >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2), >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2) >> ), >> list( >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2), >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2), >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2), >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2) >> ) >> ), >> list( >> list( >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2), >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2), >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2), >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2) >> ), >> list( >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2), >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2), >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2), >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2) >> ), >> list( >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2), >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2), >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2), >> list(a = 1, b = "b", c = 2) >> ) >> ) >> ) >> >> ## now (try to) build an array of lists of the form list(a = 1, b = "b", c = >> 2) >> n1 <- 2 >> n2 <- 3 >> n3 <- 4 >> res <- array(rep(list(NULL,NULL,NULL), n1*n2*n3), dim = c(n1,n2,n3)) >> for(i in 1:n1){ >> for(j in 1:n2){ >> for(k in 1:n3){ >> res[i,j,k] <- l[[i]][[j]][[k]] >> } >> } >> } >> > > > Try this: > > array(sapply(sapply(l, c), c), c(4, 3, 2)) > > > > -- > Statistics & Software Consulting > GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. > tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP > email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.