To make a matrix from a list of vectors in R, you can use the rbind and do.call function as follows:
for (i in 1:10) a[[i]] <- c(i,1:5)
> a
[[1]]
[1] 1 1 2 3 4 5
[[2]]
[1] 2 1 2 3 4 5
[[3]]
[1] 3 1 2 3 4 5
[[4]]
[1] 4 1 2 3 4 5
[[5]]
[1] 5 1 2 3 4 5
[[6]]
[1] 6 1 2 3 4 5
[[7]]
[1] 7 1 2 3 4 5
[[8]]
[1] 8 1 2 3 4 5
[[9]]
[1] 9 1 2 3 4 5
[[10]]
[1] 10 1 2 3 4 5
To make a matrix of the list:
> do.call(rbind, a)
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6]
[1,] 1 1 2 3 4 5
[2,] 2 1 2 3 4 5
[3,] 3 1 2 3 4 5
[4,] 4 1 2 3 4 5
[5,] 5 1 2 3 4 5
[6,] 6 1 2 3 4 5
[7,] 7 1 2 3 4 5
[8,] 8 1 2 3 4 5
[9,] 9 1 2 3 4 5
[10,] 10 1 2 3 4 5
class(do.call(rbind, a))
[1] "matrix"
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