I used RSearchSite and found out about using matrix(unlist(thelist),nrow=length(thelist),byrow=TRUE)
but then i realized that I can't use this because each component of the list can be a different length so the matrix would have to have variable column lengths which makes no sense. thanks for any suggestions. mark ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html