Convert Mixed-Length named List to data.frame

Question

I have a list of the following format:

[[1]]
[[1]]$a
[1] 1

[[1]]$b
[1] 3

[[1]]$c
[1] 5

[[2]]       
[[2]]$c
[1] 2

[[2]]$a
[1] 3

There i

Answer 1

Here is a short answer, I doubt it will be very fast though.

> library(plyr)
> rbind.fill(lapply(x, as.data.frame))
  a  b c
 1 1  3 5
 2 3 NA 2