On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Han, Hillary wrote: > Thanks very much. I used c, and got the two lists merged fine. I would like to write > the results into a file. So used > > > write.table(try, file = "try.txt") > Error in cbind(...) : cannot create a matrix from these types > > Got into the same cbind error... Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
You don't have a table! Use write? (I don't know what is in your lists, but they look like single-element vectors.) > > code: > > > class(ll) > > [1] "list" > > > class(sym) > > [1] "list" > > > dim(sym) > > [1] 508 1 > > > dim(ll) > > [1] 508 1 > > try <- c(sym[1:5], ll[1:5]) > > dim(try) > NULL > > dim(try)<- c(5, 2) > > try > [,1] [,2] > [1,] "Slc40a1" 53945 > [2,] "Rassf5" 54354 > [3,] "Igfbp4" 16010 > [4,] "Hmox1" 15368 > [5,] "Cxcr4" 12767 > > write.table(try, file = "try.txt") > Error in cbind(...) : cannot create a matrix from these types > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sat 3/27/2004 3:30 PM > To: Han, Hillary > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [R] cbind question > cbind on vectors/matrices which are not atomic is unsupported: we had a > bug report on that within the last 24 hours (but it seems to be > intentional). > > You can just concatenate the lists and add a suitable dimension: > > res <- c(ll, sym) > dim(res) <- c(508,2) > > if I understand your intentions. > > I think. However, *why* do you want to do this? A list of lists would > seem to make more sense, and can be indexed in a similar way. > > > On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Han, Hillary wrote: > > > Just wonder if there is any suggestions in how to get around this cbind > > error. I created two character lists with identical length. First tried > > What is a `character list'? > > > combine the lists together with cbind, then convert the lists to matrix, > > and tried again. Both faied. Any fix to merge the two lists/matrices? > > Merge? That's what c() does. > > > ll<- multiget(ftID, hgu95av2LOCUSID) > > > class(ll) > > [1] "list" > > > sym <- multiget(ftID, hgu95av2SYMBOL) > > > class(sym) > > [1] "list" > > > cbind(sym, ll) > > Error in cbind(...) : cannot create a matrix from these types > > > sym <- as.matrix(multiget(ftID, hgu95av2SYMBOL)) > > > ll<- as.matrix(multiget(ftID, hgu95av2LOCUSID)) > > > dim(sym) > > [1] 508 1 > > > dim(ll) > > [1] 508 1 > > > class(sym) > > [1] "matrix" > > > class(ll) > > [1] "matrix" > > > cbind(sym,ll) > > Error in cbind(...) : cannot create a matrix from these types > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
