[R] The "reverse" of do.call("rbind",) on a list

[Søren Højsgaard]

Dear List,
I want to turn the matrix
> xm
     [,1] [,2]
[1,] "a"  "b" 
[2,] "d"  "e" 

into a list "by rows" as:
[[1]]
[1] "a" "b"
[[2]]
[1] "d" "e"

A (bad?) way of doing this is as
> unlist(apply(xm,1, list), recursive=F)
[[1]]
[1] "a" "b"
[[2]]
[1] "d" "e"
 
- but there must be a more elegant way. Can anyone help on this? Thanks!
Søren