What is "this"? A matrix with two columns? A data frame? You did an excellent job of providing data to reproduce your attempt so far; thank you. But I'm not sure what you want as result. But maybe one of these two things?
> data.frame(x, stringsAsFactors=FALSE) c..A....B....C....D....E.. c..K....L....M....N....O.. 1 A K 2 B L 3 C M 4 D N 5 E O > matrix(unlist(x), ncol=2) [,1] [,2] [1,] "A" "K" [2,] "B" "L" [3,] "C" "M" [4,] "D" "N" [5,] "E" "O" On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:47 PM, mdvaan <mathijsdev...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a question about the Reduce function: > > x <- list() > x[[1]] <- LETTERS[1:5] > x[[2]] <- LETTERS[11:15] > Reduce(paste, x) > [1] "A K" "B L" "C M" "D N" "E O" > > How do I get this?: > [1] "A" "K" > [2] "B" "L" > [3] "C" "M" > [4] "D" "N" > [5] "E" "O" > > Thanks for your help! > > -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ 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.