convertDataFrameListsToVectors: Convert columns with list in data.frame to vector

In paxtoolsr: PaxtoolsR: Access Pathways from Multiple Databases through BioPAX and Pathway Commons

Description

Convert columns with list in data.frame to vector

Usage

convertDataFrameListsToVectors(df, delimiter = ";")

Arguments

df	a data.frame
delimiter	a delimiter to concatenate (DEFAULT: ;)

Value

a data.frame without list columns

Note

Lists as columns are useful programmatically, but cause issue in writing output to text-based files

Examples

   
df <- data.frame(id = 1:2, name = c("Jon", "Mark"), 
  children = I(list(c("Mary", "James"), c("Greta", "Sally"))))
df <- convertDataFrameListsToVectors(df)
  

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