Hi,
Is this what you wanted?
untable <- function(tab) rep(names(tab), as.vector(tab))
lapply(my.table.list, untable)
$x
[1] "a" "a" "b" "b" "c"
$y
[1] "a" "a" "b" "c" "d" "d"
$z
[1] "c" "d" "d"
HTH,
Dennis
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:37 PM, david.schruth <dschr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to construct an overall summary table from a list of
> tables.
>
> my.list <- list(x=c('a','b','a','b','c'), y=c
> ('a','d','c','a','b','d'),z=c('d','d','c'))
> my.table.list <- lapply(my.list, table)
>
> normally this might be really easy:
>
> master.table <- table(unlist(my.list))
>
> But as it turns out I'm writing a function which allows the passing of
> the table list in the form of 'my.table.list' above and I don't have
> access to the 'my.list' form. Does anybody know of an elegant way to
> make 'master.table' without too much code or direct reconstruction of
> 'my.list' (e.g. the following line)
>
> my.list <- lapply(my.table.list, function(x) rep(names(x),x))
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dave
>
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