Another alternative:

do.call('cbind', l[!sapply(l, function(x)all(is.na(x)))])



On 11/2/07, Petr PIKAL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal dne 02.11.2007 12:00:09:
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > I have the case that there is a NA in the list. This should not be a
> column.
> > But na.omit(l) does not work for lists. How to remove NAs from a list?
> >
> > l <- list(c(1,2,3),NA,c(1,2,3))
> > mat <- do.call(cbind, l)
>
> If number of NA is not big you can use
>
>  mat[,which(!is.na(colSums(mat)))]
>
> to select non NA columns.
>
> Regards
> Petr
>
> >
> > Best
> > Markus
> >
> >
> > Dimitris Rizopoulos schrieb:
> > > you can use do.call(), e.g.,
> > >
> > > do.call(cbind, l)
> > >
> > >
> > > I hope it helps.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Dimitris
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > > Quoting Markus Schmidberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > >
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> I have a list of vectors (all the same length). How to convert the
> list
> > >> to a matrix? Each vector should be a column.
> > >> I tried this:
> > >>
> > >> l <- list(c(1,2,3),c(1,2,3),c(1,2,3))
> > >> mat <- matrix( unlist(l), nrow=length(l) )
> > >>
> > >> But I think this is not very efficient. Is there a better solution?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks
> > >> Markus
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Dipl.-Tech. Math. Markus Schmidberger
> > >>
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