Something like expand.grid on a list of lists

Question

I have three text documents stored as a list of lists called \"dlist\":

dlist <- structure(list(name = c(\"a\", \"b\", \"c\"), text = list(c(\"the\", \"quick\         


        

Answer 1

Josh's answer is much sweeter but I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring.

dlist <- structure(list(name = c("a", "b", "c"), 
    text = list(c("the", "quick", "brown"), 
    c("fox", "jumps", "over", "the"), c("lazy", "dog"))), 
    .Names = c("name", "text"))

lens <- sapply(unlist(dlist[-1], recursive = FALSE), length)

data.frame(name = rep(dlist[[1]], lens), text = unlist(dlist[-1]), row.names = NULL)

##   name  text
## 1    a   the
## 2    a quick
## 3    a brown
## 4    b   fox
## 5    b jumps
## 6    b  over
## 7    b   the
## 8    c  lazy
## 9    c   dog

That being said the list of lists is a bit of an awkward storage method. A list of vectors (particularly named lists of vectors) would be easier to deal with.