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

Answer 1

You can also use,

output <- as.matrix(as.data.frame(z))

The memory usage is very similar to

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

Which can be verified, with mem_changed() from library(pryr).