You could do something tricky like > do.call(cbind, lapply(big.char, as.name)) dog cat tree [1,] 1 2 5 [2,] 2 3 6 [3,] 3 4 7 but you are usually better off creating these things as part of a list and passing that to do.call(cbind, list).
There is a slight danger of using do.call with cbind. If your list has a component with the unlikely name 'deparse.level', then that will be taken as cbind's deparse.level argument, not as a column of the matrix to be made. Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! > > I have a cbind type question, please: Suppose I have the following: > > dog <- 1:3 > cat <- 2:4 > tree <- 5:7 > > and a character vector > big.char <- c("dog","cat","tree") > > I want to end up with a matrix that is a "cbind" of dog, cat, and tree. > This is a toy example. There will be a bunch of variables. > > I experimented with "do.call", but all I got was > 1 > 2 > 3 > > Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I still think that do.call > might be the key, but I'm not sure. > > R Version 3-1.3, Windows 7. > > Thanks, > Erin > > > -- > Erin Hodgess > Associate Professor > Department of Mathematical and Statistics > University of Houston - Downtown > mailto: erinm.hodg...@gmail.com > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.