rlist (version 0.2.3)

list.parse: Parse an object to be a list with identical structure

Description

Parse an object to be a list with identical structure

Usage

list.parse(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'default':
list.parse(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'matrix':
list.parse(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'data.frame':
list.parse(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'character':
list.parse(x, ..., type = NULL)

Arguments

x

The object

...

Additional parameters

type

The type of data to parse. Currently json and yaml are supported. In default, NULL value will parse the character with list.parse.default. Ignored when the length of x is greater than 1.

Examples

x <- data.frame(a=1:3,type=c("A","C","B"))
list.parse(x)

x <- matrix(rnorm(1000),ncol=5)
rownames(x) <- paste0("item",1:nrow(x))
colnames(x) <- c("a","b","c","d","e")
list.parse(x)

z <- "
a:
  type: x
  class: A
  registered: yes
"
list.parse(z,type="yaml")