you can use do.call(), e.g., do.call(cbind, l)
I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris ---- Dimitris Rizopoulos Ph.D. Student Biostatistical Centre School of Public Health Catholic University of Leuven Address: Kapucijnenvoer 35, Leuven, Belgium Tel: +32/(0)16/336899 Fax: +32/(0)16/337015 Web: http://med.kuleuven.be/biostat/ http://www.student.kuleuven.be/~m0390867/dimitris.htm 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 > > Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München > IBE - Institut für medizinische Informationsverarbeitung, > Biometrie und Epidemiologie > Marchioninistr. 15, D-81377 Muenchen > URL: http://ibe.web.med.uni-muenchen.de > Mail: Markus.Schmidberger [at] ibe.med.uni-muenchen.de > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm ______________________________________________ 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.