annotationTools (version 1.46.0)

compactList: Concatenate list elements

Description

Concatenates given elements of a list.

Usage

compactList(lst,l)

Arguments

lst

list object

l

numeric vector specifying the number of list elements to be concatenated sequentially

Value

clst

list of length 'length(l)' where the 'i'-th element has length 'l[i]' and contains concatenated elements of input list 'lst'.

Details

By definition, the output list is shorter than the input list.

Function stops if 'sum(l)' does not equal 'lenght(lst)'.

Examples

##an example list
lst<-vector('list',3)
lst[[1]]<-c('aaa','bbb')
lst[[2]]<-'ccc'
lst[[3]]<-'zzz'
##merge first 2 list elements
compactList(lst,c(2,1))