Cartesian product data frame

Question

I have three or more independent variables represented as R vectors, like so:

A <- c(1,2,3)
B <- factor(c(\'x\',\'y\'))
C <- c(0.1,0.5)

Answer 1

With library tidyr one can use tidyr::crossing (order will be as in OP):

library(tidyr)
crossing(A,B,C)
# A tibble: 12 x 3
#        A B         C
#      
#  1     1 x       0.1
#  2     1 x       0.5
#  3     1 y       0.1
#  4     1 y       0.5
#  5     2 x       0.1
#  6     2 x       0.5
#  7     2 y       0.1
#  8     2 y       0.5
#  9     3 x       0.1
# 10     3 x       0.5
# 11     3 y       0.1
# 12     3 y       0.5 

The next step would be to use tidyverse and especially the purrr::pmap* family:

library(tidyverse)
crossing(A,B,C) %>% mutate(D = pmap_chr(.,paste,sep="_"))
# A tibble: 12 x 4
#        A B         C D      
#         
#  1     1 x       0.1 1_1_0.1
#  2     1 x       0.5 1_1_0.5
#  3     1 y       0.1 1_2_0.1
#  4     1 y       0.5 1_2_0.5
#  5     2 x       0.1 2_1_0.1
#  6     2 x       0.5 2_1_0.5
#  7     2 y       0.1 2_2_0.1
#  8     2 y       0.5 2_2_0.5
#  9     3 x       0.1 3_1_0.1
# 10     3 x       0.5 3_1_0.5
# 11     3 y       0.1 3_2_0.1
# 12     3 y       0.5 3_2_0.5