squishList {PAMmisc}

Compress a List by Name

Description

Attempts to compress a list by combining elements with the same name, searching recursively if there are lists in your list

Usage

squishList(myList, unique = FALSE)

Arguments

myList

a list with named elements to be compressed

unique

logical flag to try and reduce result to only unique values

Details

items with the same name are assumed to have the same structure and will be combined. Dataframes will be combined with bind_rows, vectors just be collapsed into one vector, matrices will be combined with rbind, lists will be combined recursively with another call to squishList

Value

a list with one element for every unique name in the original list

Author(s)

Taiki Sakai [e-mail]

Examples

myList <- list(a=1:3, b=letters[1:4], a=5:6, b=letters[4:10])
squishList(myList)

myList <- list(a=1:3, b=data.frame(x=1:3, y=4:6), b=data.frame(x=10:14, y=1:5))
squishList(myList)

myList <- list(a=list(c=1:2, d=2), b=letters[1:3], a=list(c=4:5, d=6:9))
squishList(myList)