How to convert a data frame of integer64 values to be a matrix?

Question

I have a data frame consisting entirely of integer64 columns that I\'d like to convert to be a matrix.

library(bit64)
(dfr <- data.frame(x = as.integer64(         


        

Answer 1

For a raw vector, assigning the dim attribute directly seems to work:

> z <- as.integer64(1:10)
> z
integer64
 [1] 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10
> dim(z) <- c(10, 1)
> z
integer64
      [,1]
 [1,] 1   
 [2,] 2   
 [3,] 3   
 [4,] 4   
 [5,] 5   
 [6,] 6   
 [7,] 7   
 [8,] 8   
 [9,] 9   
[10,] 10  

For a data frame, cbinding the columns also works:

> df <- data.frame(x=as.integer64(1:5), y=as.integer64(6:10))
> df
  x  y
1 1  6
2 2  7
3 3  8
4 4  9
5 5 10
> cbind(df$x, df$y)
integer64
     [,1] [,2]
[1,] 1    6   
[2,] 2    7   
[3,] 3    8   
[4,] 4    9   
[5,] 5    10  

So, for an arbitrary number of columns, do.call is the way to go:

> do.call(cbind, df)
integer64
     x y 
[1,] 1 6 
[2,] 2 7 
[3,] 3 8 
[4,] 4 9 
[5,] 5 10