On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:01 PM, arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> #or you could use:
> do.call(rbind,result)
>
>
> A.K.
>
> Excellent.  Thank you.  That also saves a library requirement sine I am
not using plyr anywhere else.

Cheers,
Tim



>
> On Monday, April 21, 2014 4:48 PM, Timothy W. Cook <t...@mlhim.org> wrote:
> Okay, all day on this and I send the msg. and almost immediately discover
> that:
>
> dat <- ldply(result)
>
> solves the problem.
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Timothy W. Cook <t...@mlhim.org> wrote:
>
> > I am processing an arbitrary number of XML files and extracting specific
> > nodes.  I then create a dataframe for each nodeset.
> > I return a list containing these dataframes.
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > > str(result)List of 2
> >  $ :'data.frame':    1 obs. of  5 variables:
> >   ..$ data-name       : chr "Etiologic diagnosis of Acute Febrile
> Hemorrhagic Syndrome"
> >   ..$ valid-time-begin: chr "2014-04-28T01:31:49Z"
> >   ..$ valid-time-end  : chr "3014-04-28T01:31:48Z"
> >   ..$ DvString-dv     : chr "Typhoid fever"
> >   ..$ language        : chr "en-US"
> >  $ :'data.frame':    1 obs. of  5 variables:
> >   ..$ data-name       : chr "Etiologic diagnosis of Acute Febrile
> Hemorrhagic Syndrome"
> >   ..$ valid-time-begin: chr "2014-04-29T01:02:00Z"
> >   ..$ valid-time-end  : chr "3014-04-29T01:01:59Z"
> >   ..$ DvString-dv     : chr "Dengue"
> >   ..$ language        : chr "en-US"
> >
> >
> > I would like to have each of the list items as a row in one dataframe.
> My
> > attempts so far have been unsuccessful. I have tried t(), merge(),
> > lapply(), etc.  Short of some elaborate *for loop* (I know is frowned
> > upon)  I am out of answers.
> >
> > I would think this is a fairly common need, maybe even a FAQ that I
> > haven't found yet.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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