Hi Elio, I guess the error is here: as.vector(sapply(lst2,rownames)) #still a list
length(unique(as.vector(sapply(lst2,rownames))) )# length of list #22 uNrownames <- unique(unlist(sapply(lst2,rownames))) length(uNrownames) #[1] 90 res <- matrix(0,nrow=length(uNrownames),ncol=length(uNrownames),dimnames=list(uNrownames,uNrownames)) for(i in seq_along(lst2)){ res[rownames(lst2[[i]]),rownames(lst2[[i]])] <- res[rownames(lst2[[i]]),rownames(lst2[[i]])]+lst2[[i]] res } dim(res) #[1] 90 90 res[1:3,1:3] # a15 a187 a200 #a15 0 1 1 #a187 1 0 0 #a200 1 0 0 A.K. On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 12:50 PM, Elio Shijaku <sel...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Arun, Sorry to disturb once again but I have encountered an error while trying to combine 22 symmetric matrices of different dimensions (in the attached file) into one single symmetric matrix. Here is what I get as an error: > length(list.files(pattern=".txt")) [1] 22 > lst1 <- > lapply(list.files(pattern=".txt"),function(x) + > read.table(x,header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE)) > sapply(lst1,dim) [,1] > [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] [,10] [,11] [,12] [,13] [,14] [,15] [1,] 65 68 63 72 70 72 73 78 77 77 75 80 77 75 76 [2,] 65 68 63 72 70 72 73 78 77 77 75 80 77 75 76 [,16] [,17] [,18] [,19] [,20] [,21] [,22] [1,] 77 69 73 66 62 59 56 [2,] 77 69 73 66 62 59 56 > sapply(lst1,function(x) all(apply(rbind(colnames(x),rownames(x)),2,function(y) y[1]==y[2]))) [1] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE [17] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE > lst2 <- lapply(lst1,as.matrix) > uNrownames <- unique(as.vector(sapply(lst2,rownames))) > res <- matrix(0,nrow=length(uNrownames), ncol=length(uNrownames), dimnames=list(uNrownames,uNrownames)) > for(i in seq_along(lst2)){ + res[rownames(lst2[[i]]),rownames(lst2[[i]])] <- res[rownames(lst2[[i]]),rownames(lst2[[i]])] + lst2[[i]] + res + } Error in res[rownames(lst2[[i]]), rownames(lst2[[i]])] : subscript out of bounds Any idea about what may cause the error? Thanks a lot. Best, Elio ______________________________________________ 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.