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
)
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)