You are so close: rep(list(g), 3) [[1]] [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 0.00 2.0 4 [2,] 0.25 0.0 0 [3,] 0.00 0.6 0
[[2]] [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 0.00 2.0 4 [2,] 0.25 0.0 0 [3,] 0.00 0.6 0 [[3]] [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 0.00 2.0 4 [2,] 0.25 0.0 0 [3,] 0.00 0.6 0 Sarah On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Anser Chen <anser.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > Suppose I have the following square, non-negative matrices > >> g=matrix(c(0,2,4,0.25,0,0,0,0.6,0),3,3,byrow=T); > > > > I want to create a list where this matrix is repeated multiple times. if I > do this brute force (manually), using > >> env <- list(g,g,g) > > works fine. Yields > > [[1]] > [,1] [,2] [,3] > [1,] 0.00 2.0 4 > [2,] 0.25 0.0 0 > [3,] 0.00 0.6 0 > > [[2]] > [,1] [,2] [,3] > [1,] 0.00 2.0 4 > [2,] 0.25 0.0 0 > [3,] 0.00 0.6 0 > > [[3]] > [,1] [,2] [,3] > [1,] 0.00 2.0 4 > [2,] 0.25 0.0 0 > [3,] 0.00 0.6 0 > > > > But - for a variety of purposes, I need to 'automate' building said list. I > tried using rep > > >> env <- list(rep(g,each=3)) > > but this yields > > [1] 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.00 0.00 0.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 0.00 0.00 > 0.00 > [16] 0.60 0.60 0.60 4.00 4.00 4.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 > > Any suggestions/pointers to the obvious? > > Thanks in advance... -- 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.