strList2DataFrame: Format a string list into a data.frame

In ribiosIO: Input/Output Utilities of the 'ribios' Suite

Format a string list into a data.frame

Description

Format a string list into a data.frame

Usage

strList2DataFrame(strList, colnames = names(strList), index = FALSE)

Arguments

strList	A list of character strings. Other data types (e.g. factors) are converted to strings.
colnames	Column names of the resulting data.frame, by default the names of the list
index	Logical value, whether the row.names attribute of the data.frame should be integer indexes

Value

A character matrix with list elements as columns, padded with empty strings to equal length.

Examples

myList <- list("A"=LETTERS[3:5], "B"=LETTERS[4])
strList2DataFrame(myList)
strList2DataFrame(myList, colnames=c("FirstColumn", "SecondColumn"))
strList2DataFrame(myList, colnames=c("FirstColumn", "SecondColumn"), index=TRUE)

myFacList <- list("A"=gl(2,3, labels=LETTERS[1:2]), 
    "B"=gl(3,4, labels=LETTERS[1:3]))
strList2DataFrame(myFacList)

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