Something similar to data.frame, but allows variables with unique lengths?

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I have a tightly coupled collection of variables with different lengths and types (some characters and others numerics).? I looked at the documentation for data.frame, but indicates that it expects all variables to have the same length, i.e. number of elements.

I was hoping the "See Also" documentation for?data.frame?would have helped, but it did not have any good leads.

Here is a list of data I would like to store together:
(FileName (character string),
?HighValue (numeric),
?LowValue (numeric),
?Units (character),
?OthersValues?(array of numerics),
?Descriptor?(character string))

By any chance is there a generic object type feature within R to store such data together in one variable?

Thank you for any details and leads you can provide.

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What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
I have a tightly coupled collection of variables with different lengths and types (some characters and others numerics).  I looked at the documentation for data.frame, but indicates that it expects all variables to have the same length, i.e. number of elements.  

I think you are looking for the list obiect (the data.frame is a 
particular list with the constrain that each element have to be of the 
same length).
See:
?list
chapter 6 of An Introduction to R

Ciao,
domenico

I was hoping the "See Also" documentation for data.frame would have helped, but it did not have any good leads.  

Here is a list of data I would like to store together:
(FileName (character string), 
 HighValue (numeric),
 LowValue (numeric), 
 Units (character), 
 OthersValues (array of numerics), 
 Descriptor (character string))

By any chance is there a generic object type feature within R to store such data together in one variable?  

Thank you for any details and leads you can provide. 

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