Alright, but I need something recursive for lists with arbitrary deepness.
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:37 PM, arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Try: > > do.call("c",do.call("c",x)) > > x1<-do.call("c",do.call("c",x)) > x2<-flatlist(x) > identical(x1,x2) > [1] TRUE > > > > A.K. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jeroen Ooms <jeroen.o...@stat.ucla.edu> > To: Neal Fultz <nfu...@gmail.com> > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 6:23 PM > Subject: Re: [R] flatten lists > > Hmm that doesn't seem to work if the original list is nested more than > 2 levels deep. I should have probably given a better example: > > x <- list(name="Jeroen", age=27, married=FALSE, > home=list(country=list(name="Netherlands", short="NL"), city="Utrecht")) > > > > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Neal Fultz <nfu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> do.call("c", x) >> >> maybe? >> >> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 02:25:40PM -0700, Jeroen Ooms wrote: >>> I am looking for a function to flatten a list to a list of only 1 >>> level deep. Very similar to unlist, however I don't want to turn it >>> into a vector because then everything will be casted to character >>> vectors: >>> >>> x <- list(name="Jeroen", age=27, married=FALSE, >>> home=list(country="Netherlands", city="Utrecht")) >>> unlist(x) >>> >>> This function sort of does it: >>> >>> flatlist <- function(mylist){ >>> lapply(rapply(mylist, enquote, how="unlist"), eval) >>> } >>> >>> flatlist(x) >>> >>> However it is a bit slow. Is there a more native way? >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.