[R] Row-wisely converting a data frame into a list

[Sebastian Bauer]

Hi!

On 03/02/2010 02:22 PM, Nutter, Benjamin wrote:
>> as.data.frame(t(df))
>
> For example
>
>> x<- as.data.frame(t(mtcars))
>> typeof(x)
> [1] "list"


Thanks for the quick reply!

I would never have guessed that as.data.frame() works that way!

BTW
This one seems also to do the trick:

rows.to.list <- function( df ) {
	ll<-apply(df,1,list)
	ll<-lapply(ll,unlist)
}

It's even a bit faster here.

Bye,
Sebastian