Dear Bogdan, You are looking for x$intersectA <- vector("list", nrow(x))
Best regards, ir. Thierry Onkelinx Statisticus / Statistician Vlaamse Overheid / Government of Flanders INSTITUUT VOOR NATUUR- EN BOSONDERZOEK / RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST Team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / Team Biometrics & Quality Assurance thierry.onkel...@inbo.be Havenlaan 88 bus 73, 1000 Brussel www.inbo.be /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// <https://www.inbo.be> 2018-07-25 8:55 GMT+02:00 Bogdan Tanasa <tan...@gmail.com>: > Dear all, > > assuming that I do have a dataframe like : > > x <- data.frame(TYPE=c("DEL", "DEL", "DUP", "TRA", "INV", "TRA"), > CHRA=c("chr1", "chr1", "chr1", "chr1", "chr2", "chr2"), > POSA=c(10, 15, 120, 340, 100, 220), > CHRB=c("chr1", "chr1", "chr1", "chr2", "chr2", "chr1"), > POSB=c(30, 100, 300, 20, 200, 320)) , > > how could I initiate another 2 columns in x, where each element in these 2 > columns is going to be a list (the list could be updated later). Thank you > ! > > Shall I do, > > for (i in 1:dim(x)[1]) { x$intersectA[i] <- list()} > > for (i in 1:dim(x)[1]) { x$intersectB[i] <- list()} > > nothing is happening. Thank you very much ! > > [[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. > [[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.