I have forgotten to say that the elements in the list are not necessarily equal... meaning that x1 and x2 are from different dimensions so I can't use data.frame(l)
More suitable example: x1=data.frame(Name=LETTERS[1:2],Age=1:2) x2=data.frame(Name=LETTERS[3:5],Age=3:5) l=list(x1,x2) l l [[1]] Name Age 1 A 1 2 B 2 [[2]] Name Age 1 C 3 2 D 4 3 E 5 Naira Naira wrote: > > Dear all, > > I would like to know whether it is possible to unlist elements and keep > the original format of the data. > To make it more clear, let me give an exemple: > I have a list l of dataframes that I created with apply but which looks > like this: > > x1=data.frame(Name=LETTERS[1:2],Age=1:2) > x2=data.frame(Name=LETTERS[3:4],Age=3:4) > l=list(x1,x2) > l > [[1]] > Name Age > 1 A 1 > 2 B 2 > > [[2]] > Name Age > 1 C 3 > 2 D 4 > > I would like to unlist l to create a dataframe with 2 columns and 4 rows > but keeping the format of Name (character) and Age (numeric). > > Now when I unlist l, I obtain : > > unlist(l) > Name1 Name2 Age1 Age2 Name1 Name2 Age1 Age2 > 1 2 1 2 1 2 3 4 > > Is there a way to at least obtain something like > A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4 as result from the unlist?? > > Thanks a lot for your replies > Naira > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/unlist---dataframes-tp20358993p20359097.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.