flatten: Flatten a recursive list

In ryannick28/CustomFunctionsYrotha: Collection of my custom functions

Flatten a recursive list

Description

This function flattens a recursive list into a non-recursive list, keeping all the elements (which do not inherit class "list") in the leaves of the original list intact. Therefore, data frames remain for example unchanged which is a different behavior compared to unlist. The function was taken from the internet, see: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47603578/flatten-recursive-list

Usage

flatten(x)

Arguments

x	An R object, intended to be a recursive list.

Value

Returns a non-recursive list, listing all elements in the leaves of x.

Examples

X <- list(a = list(b = pi, c = iris[1:3,]), d = 1:10)
flatten(X)

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