paleotree (version 3.3.0)

reverseList: Reverse List Structure

Description

Takes a list and reverses the list structure, such that list composed of five elements with eight sub-elements is restructured to have eight elements with five sub-elements each, with the order of elements and sub-elements being retained despite their reversal in hierarchical position.

Usage

reverseList(list, simplify = FALSE)

Arguments

list

A list composed of multiple elements, with each element a vector or list of equal length

simplify

Should the result be simplified, as the argument in sapply

Value

Returns a list with a reversed structure relative to the input, see above.

Details

The function will fail and return an error if all sub-elements are not vectors or lists of equal length.

This function can be useful for instances when each element of a list is by-sample, composed of multiple, different tests on that sample, but where for further analysis/plotting, it would be beneficial to have a list where each element represented values from the same test performed across multiple samples (i.e. plotting a box-plot).

Examples

# NOT RUN {
list1 <- list(list(1:3),list(1:3),list(1:3))
reverseList(list1,simplify = FALSE)
reverseList(list1,simplify = TRUE)

# }