A mini-utility package for turning nested lists into data.frames.
A recombinator attempts to convert a depth 2 nested list into
a data.frame.
recombinator(dat, id = "id")list. The list of lists to process. It can be in homogeneous or heterogeneous format (see the description).
character. Primary key, by default "id".
the converted data.frame. If not a list, no changes will be performed.
There are two supported formats.
Homogeneous lists A list where the first list element is a character vector giving the names of the data.frame, and the subsequent list elements themselves lists of values.
Heterogeneous lists A list where each element is a named
list of values. In this format, plyr::rbind will be used
to take the union of all names and impute the ones missing
with NA values.