how to combine vectors with different length within a list in R?

后端 未结 3 2025
故里飘歌
故里飘歌 2021-02-09 14:58

I have a problem when combining the following vectors included in the list:

x <- list(as.numeric(c(1,4)),as.numeric(c(3,19,11)))
names (x[[1]]) <- c(\"spec         


        
3条回答
  •  囚心锁ツ
    2021-02-09 15:42

    You need to give R a bit more help, by first preparing the particular vectors, all of the same length, that you eventually want to cbind together. Otherwise (as you've seen) R uses its usual recycling rules to fill out the matrix.

    Try something like this:

    spp <- paste("species", c("A", "B", "C"), sep=".")
    
    x2 <- lapply(x, FUN=function(X) X[spp])
    mat <- do.call("cbind", x2)
    row.names(mat) <- spp
    
    mat
              [,1] [,2]
    species.A    1    3
    species.B   NA   19
    species.C    4   11
    

    EDIT: As Brian mentions in comments, this could be made a bit more compact (but at the expense of some readability). Which one you use is just a matter of taste:

    mat <- do.call("cbind", lapply(x, "[", spp))
    row.names(mat) <- spp
    

提交回复
热议问题