R list to data frame

Question

I have a nested list of data. Its length is 132 and each item is a list of length 20. Is there a quick way to convert this structure into a data frame that has 132 rows and 20 columns of data?

I am new to R, so I figure there is probably an easy way to do this. I searched here on Stack Overflow and couldn’t find a similar question, so I apologize if I missed it. Some sample data:

l <- replicate(

  132,

  list(sample(letters, 20)),

  simplify = FALSE

)

Answer 1

Assuming your list of lists is called l:

df <- data.frame(matrix(unlist(l), nrow=132, byrow=T))

The above will convert all character columns to factors, to avoid this you can add a parameter to the data.frame() call:

df <- data.frame(matrix(unlist(l), nrow=132, byrow=T),stringsAsFactors=FALSE)

R list to data frame

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