It would help if you show exactly the structure of your desired result, using the simple example data you supplied (what, exactly, do you mean by "array"?)
If you want mydata[[1]] "to provide the values for all three 3 variables (Y, X1 and X2) of the first imputation only" then this will do it: > mydat <- list( Imputed[1:8,] , Imputed[9:16,] ) > mydat[[1]] X1 X2 Y 1 1 0 1 2 2 1 2 3 1 0 3 4 2 1 4 5 1 1 5 6 2 1 6 7 1 0 7 8 2 1 8 But mydata is not an array, it's a list. The "[[ ]]" syntax doesn't particularly make sense on an array object: > array(1:12, dim=c(2,3,2)) , , 1 [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 1 3 5 [2,] 2 4 6 , , 2 [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 7 9 11 [2,] 8 10 12 > > array(1:12, dim=c(2,3,2))[[1]] [1] 1 But "[[ ]]" does make sense on a list object. -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 Lab cell 925-724-7509 On 5/24/18, 8:14 AM, "R-help on behalf of Ioanna Ioannou" <r-help-boun...@r-project.org on behalf of ii54...@msn.com> wrote: Hello everyone, Thank you for this. Nonetheless it is not exactly want i need. I need mydata[[1]] to provide the values for all 3 variables (Y, X1 and X2) of the first imputation only. As it stands it returns the whole database. Any ideas? Best, ioanna ________________________________ From: Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> Sent: 24 May 2018 16:04 To: Ioanna Ioannou Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Manipulation of data.frame into an array This is one of those instances where a less superficial knowledge of R's technical details comes in really handy. What you need to do is convert the data frame to a single (numeric) vector for, e.g. a matrix() call. This can be easily done by noting that a data frame is also a list and using do.call(): ## imp is the data frame: do.call(c,imp) X11 X12 X13 X14 X15 X16 X17 X18 X19 X110 X111 X112 X113 X114 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 X115 X116 X21 X22 X23 X24 X25 X26 X27 X28 X29 X210 X211 X212 1 2 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 X213 X214 X215 X216 Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6 Y7 Y8 Y9 Y10 1 1 0 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 Y11 Y12 Y13 Y14 Y15 Y16 3 4 5 6 7 8 So, e.g. for a 3 column matrix: > matrix(do.call(c,imp), ncol=3) [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 1 0 1 [2,] 2 1 2 [3,] 1 0 3 [4,] 2 1 4 [5,] 1 1 5 [6,] 2 1 6 [7,] 1 0 7 [8,] 2 1 8 [9,] 1 0 1 [10,] 2 1 2 [11,] 1 0 3 [12,] 2 1 4 [13,] 1 1 5 [14,] 2 1 6 [15,] 1 0 7 [16,] 2 1 8 Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 7:46 AM, Ioanna Ioannou <ii54...@msn.com<mailto:ii54...@msn.com>> wrote: Hello everyone, I want to transform a data.frame into an array (lets call it mydata), where: mydata[[1]] is the first imputed dataset...and for each mydata[[d]], the first p columns are covariates X, and the last one is the outcome Y. Lets assume a simple data.frame: Imputed = data.frame( X1 = c(1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2, 1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2), X2 = c(0,1,0,1,1,1,0,1, 0,1,0,1,1,1,0,1), Y = c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)) The first 8 have been obtained by the first imputation and the later 8 by the 2nd. Can you help me please? Best, ioanna [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org<mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.