How to convert a huge list-of-vector to a matrix more efficiently?

Question

I have a list of length 130,000 where each element is a character vector of length 110. I would like to convert this list to a matrix with dimension 1,430,000*10. How can I do it more efficiently?\ My code is :

output=NULL

for(i in 1:length(z)) {

 output=rbind(output,

              matrix(z[[i]],ncol=10,byrow=TRUE))

}

Answer 1

To convert a huge list of a vector to a matrix, you can use the unlist() function before creating a matrix as follows:

output <- matrix(unlist(z), ncol = 10, byrow = TRUE)

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