asSepList {wrMisc}

Organize Data as Separate List-Entries

Description

asSepList allows reorganizing most types of input into a list with separate numeric vectors. For example, matrixes or data.frames will be split into separate columns (differnt to partUnlist which maintains the original structure). This function also works with lists of lists. This function may be helpful for reorganizing data for plots.

Usage

asSepList(
  y,
  minLen = 4,
  asNumeric = TRUE,
  exclElem = NULL,
  sep = "_",
  fillNames = TRUE,
  silent = FALSE,
  callFrom = NULL,
  debug = FALSE
)

Arguments

y

list to be separated/split in vectors

minLen

(integer) min length (or number of rows), as add'l element to eliminate arguments given without names when asSepList is called in vioplot2

asNumeric

(logical) to transform all list-elements in simple numeric vectors (won't work if some entries are character)

exclElem

(character) optinal names to exclude if any (lazy matching) matches (to exclude other arguments be misinterpreted as data)

sep

(character) separator when combining name of list-element to colames

fillNames

(logical) add names for list-elements/ series when not given

silent

(logical) suppress messages

callFrom

(character) allow easier tracking of messages produced

debug

(logical) display additional messages for debugging

Value

This function returns a list, partially unlisted to vectors

See Also

partUnlist, unlist

Examples

bb <- list(fa=gl(2,2), c=31:33, L2=matrix(21:28,nc=2),
  li=list(li1=11:14, li2=data.frame(41:44)))
asSepList(bb)
## multi data-frame examples
ca <- data.frame(a=11:15, b=21:25, c=31:35)
cb <- data.frame(a=51:53, b=61:63)
cc <- list(gl(3,2), ca, cb, 91:94, short=81:82, letters[1:5])
asSepList(cc)
cd <- list(e1=gl(3,2), e2=ca, e3=cb, e4=91:94, short=81:82, e6=letters[1:5])
asSepList(cd)