Re: How to cbind a list to data.frame while avoid using for loop

[sbackwards@comcast.net (SD Chasalow)]

do.call("cbind", temp) will create a matrix.  The original message is unclear 
about whether a matrix or data.frame is desired.  But if a data.frame,

as.data.frame(temp) will do the trick.

-Scott

Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote:

do.call("cbind", temp)

Brian Wu wrote:

> I have a list temp.
>
>
>> temp
>
>
> [[1]]
>       MSFT
> 1999 37156
> 2000 52150
> 2001 59257
> 2002 67646
> 2003 79571
> 2004 92389
>
> [[2]]
>         IBM
> 1999  87495
> 2000  88349
> 2001  88313
> 2002  96484
> 2003 104457
> 2004 109183
>
> [[3]]
>          GOOG
> 1999       NA
> 2000       NA
> 2001       NA
> 2002  286.892
> 2003  871.458
> 2004 3313.351
>
> Any idea, how to combine the data.frame components into a data.frame avoid 
> using for loop?
>
> I wanna the result like this:
>
>> cbind(temp[[1]],temp[[2]],temp[[3]])
>
>
>       MSFT    IBM     GOOG
> 1999 37156  87495       NA
> 2000 52150  88349       NA
> 2001 59257  88313       NA
> 2002 67646  96484  286.892
> 2003 79571 104457  871.458
> 2004 92389 109183 3313.351
>
> the length of the list is variable.
>
> Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated!
>
> Brian