Query: list within a list

Dear R users,
I have difficulty to create a list within a list.
Example: with
A <- vector(mode="list", 4)
I create a list of 4 elements:
A
[[1]]
NULL

[[2]]
NULL

[[3]]
NULL

[[4]]
NULL

In each element of this list I can store, for example, a matrix:
A[[1]] <- matrix ...

I need each element of A to be a list (all the lists of the same length), and then store matrices within these lists.
Have I explained it in a reasonable way?
Is it possible?
If yes, is it efficient? For my purposes, I need to have A a list of length 20000 or 30000 (even 50000 possibily), and the lists within A of length 1000 and store square matrices of dimension 13.

Thank you for your attention and your help
Stefano Sofia PhD

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Le mercredi 22 f?vrier 2012 ? 16:17 +0100, Stefano Sofia a ?crit :
Dear R users,
I have difficulty to create a list within a list.
Example: with

A <- vector(mode="list", 4)
I create a list of 4 elements:
A
[[1]]
NULL

[[2]]
NULL

[[3]]
NULL

[[4]]
NULL

In each element of this list I can store, for example, a matrix:
A[[1]] <- matrix ...

I need each element of A to be a list (all the lists of the same
length), and then store matrices within these lists.
Have I explained it in a reasonable way?
Is it possible?
If yes, is it efficient? For my purposes, I need to have A a list of
length 20000 or 30000 (even 50000 possibily), and the lists within A
of length 1000 and store square matrices of dimension 13.
If all your matrices are of the same dimension, you can merge them into
arrays of dimensions 13x13x1000. Then, just put the arrays into a list.
Does that suit your needs?

(If you have enough RAM, you can even merge all the matrices into a big
array of dimensions 13x13x1000x50000, but...)

Regards
It's certainly possible and I don't think you get any grueling
inefficiencies. along the way.

Another way that might or might not make sense for you is to use a
nifty trick I saw Gabor and Duncan M use a few weeks ago: you can give
dimensionality to a list and then subset it in the "normal" ways:
e.g.,

x <- list(a = 1, b = 2, c = 3, d = 4)
dim(x) <- c(2,2)
colnames(x) <- c("a", "b")

x[2,]
x[,2]

x[[2]]]

x[,"a"]

Might be of help for some nifty indexing. (Or it might look so crazy
to scare folks away: your call)

Michael
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Stefano Sofia
Dear R users,
I have difficulty to create a list within a list.
Example: with

A <- vector(mode="list", 4)
I create a list of 4 elements:
A
[[1]]
NULL

[[2]]
NULL

[[3]]
NULL

[[4]]
NULL

In each element of this list I can store, for example, a matrix:
A[[1]] <- matrix ...

I need each element of A to be a list (all the lists of the same length), and then store matrices within these lists.
Have I explained it in a reasonable way?
Is it possible?
If yes, is it efficient? For my purposes, I need to have A a list of length 20000 or 30000 (even 50000 possibily), and the lists within A of length 1000 and store square matrices of dimension 13.

Thank you for your attention and your help
Stefano Sofia PhD

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