Question

Ok so i have a bunch of values in a 2*100 dataframe , i want this to be stored as a list which will be stored as an element of a dataframe again…

This means every dataframe will contain a column, each element of which will refer to a list containing a bunch of information

Is this possible ?

Answer 1

Yes, it sure is! Try I().

> df = data.frame(a=1:3,b=4:6)
> df
  a b
1 1 4
2 2 5
3 3 6
> DF = data.frame(A=I(list(df,df)),B=I(list(df,df)))
> DF
         A        B
1 1:3, 4:6 1:3, 4:6
2 1:3, 4:6 1:3, 4:6
> sapply(DF,class)
     A      B 
"AsIs" "AsIs" 
> sapply(DF$A,class)
[1] "data.frame" "data.frame"
> sapply(DF$B,class)
[1] "data.frame" "data.frame"
> DF[2,1]
[[1]]
  a b
1 1 4
2 2 5
3 3 6