My apologies: I missed the order of the desired output: the easiest thing to do is likely to use the same techniques given below (and by others in this thread) with a transpose t() before.
Michael On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:05 AM, R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weyla...@gmail.com> wrote: > Your question is not well formed: do you want a list or a string > (totally different things)? Or even more likely, a character vector? > What do you have now: is it really an array (=matrix) or is it the > data.frame it looks like? > > If it's a matrix: > > x <- matrix(letters[1:8], ncol = 2) > x <- as.vector(x) # Character Vector > paste(x, collapse = "") # String > > If it's a data frame with factors: > > x <- data.frame(matrix(letters[1:8], ncol = 2)) > as.character(unlist(x)) # omit as.character() if you actually have > character elements and not factors. > > Michael > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:32 PM, thomas88 <thomas.coq...@free.fr> wrote: >> Hello, >> I am looking for a way to transform an array into a list (or a string). >> My array has two columns 1 and 2, and I would like to create a list of the >> values. >> >> Let's say I have : >> >> x1 x2 >> 1 a b >> 2 c d >> 3 e f >> 4 g h >> >> What I would like to obtain is a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h. >> >> I tried without success melt and reshape ( reshape(my_array, >> direction="long", varying=1:2) ) but I cannot get it work. >> >> Thanks a lot !!! >> thomas >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Table-into-a-list-tp4418804p4418804.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. ______________________________________________ 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.