Convert a List to a Character Matrix
This function converts a given list of atomic vectors to a character matrix.
stri_list2matrix( x, byrow = FALSE, fill = NA_character_, n_min = 0, by_row = byrow )
x |
a list of atomic vectors |
byrow |
a single logical value; should the resulting matrix be transposed? |
fill |
a single string, see Details |
n_min |
a single integer value; minimal number of rows ( |
by_row |
alias of |
This function is similar to the built-in simplify2array
function. However, it always returns a character matrix,
even if each element in x
is of length 1
or if elements in x
are not of the same lengths.
Moreover, the elements in x
are always coerced to character vectors.
If byrow
is FALSE
, then a matrix with length(x)
columns is returned.
The number of rows is the length of the
longest vector in x
, but no less than n_min
. Basically, we have
result[i,j] == x[[j]][i]
if i <= length(x[[j]])
and result[i,j] == fill
otherwise, see Examples.
If byrow
is TRUE
, then the resulting matrix is
a transposition of the above-described one.
This function may be useful, e.g., in connection with stri_split
and stri_extract_all
.
Returns a character matrix.
Other utils:
stri_na2empty()
,
stri_remove_empty()
,
stri_replace_na()
simplify2array(list(c('a', 'b'), c('c', 'd'), c('e', 'f'))) stri_list2matrix(list(c('a', 'b'), c('c', 'd'), c('e', 'f'))) stri_list2matrix(list(c('a', 'b'), c('c', 'd'), c('e', 'f')), byrow=TRUE) simplify2array(list('a', c('b', 'c'))) stri_list2matrix(list('a', c('b', 'c'))) stri_list2matrix(list('a', c('b', 'c')), fill='') stri_list2matrix(list('a', c('b', 'c')), fill='', n_min=5)
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