Hi, This has bugged me for a bit. First question is how to keep classes with rbind, and second question is how to properly return vecotrs instead of lists after turning an rbind of lists into a data.frame
list1=list(a=2, b=as.Date("20090102", format="%Y%m%d")) list2=list(a=2, b=as.Date("20090102", format="%Y%m%d")) rbind(list1, list2) #this loses the posixct class. My first question is is there a way to do this without losing the classes? data.frame(rbind(list1, list2)) data.frame(rbind(list1, list2))$a #this returns a list output and not a vector output. (this is a huge pain) data.frame(rbind(list1, list2))[,c("a")] #also returns list output #> data.frame(rbind(list1, list2))[,c("a")] #$list1 #[1] 1 # #$list2 #[1] 2 # I would instead like [1] 1 2 like in the below example > vec1 = c(1,2) > vec2 = c(2,3) > data.frame(rbind(vec1, vec2))[,1] #this outputs as a vector which is what I want from the above list rbind. is it possible to easily do the above? I read over rbind but it doesn't seem to have any of the above fixes. Is there a different function that does this the way I want it to? Thanks, Rob [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.