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list - Prevent unlist to drop NULL values

I have a vector of lists and I use unlist on them. Some of the elements in the vectors are NULL and unlist seems to be dropping them.

How can I prevent this?

Here's a simple (non) working example showing this unwanted feature of unlist

a = c(list("p1"=2, "p2"=5), 
      list("p1"=3, "p2"=4), 
      list("p1"=NULL, "p2"=NULL), 
      list("p1"=4, "p2"=5))
unlist(a)
 p1 p2 p1 p2 p1 p2 
 2  5  3  4  4  5 
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In this case (one level depth list) this should works too:

a[sapply(a, is.null)] <- NA
unlist(a)
# p1 p2 p1 p2 p1 p2 p1 p2 
#  2  5  3  4 NA NA  4  5

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