[R] create a r list from dataframe using the first column as list names

[Bert Gunter]

"I thought: why make this overly complicated,..."

Indeed, though "complicated" is in the eyes of the beholder.
One wonders whether any of this is necessary, though: see ?apply , as in
apply(a, 1, whatever...)
to do things rowwise.

Cheers,
Bert

Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )


On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 9:14 AM Rasmus Liland <jensrasmus using gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2020-04-09 18:00 +0000, aiguo li wrote:
> | That is awesome!  Thanks.
>
> Dear AiGuo,
>
> I thought: why make this overly
> complicated, when this is also
> possible:
>
>   a <- matrix(LETTERS[1:16], nrow=4)
>   X <- split(x=a[,-1], f=a[,1])
>   lapply(X=X, FUN=as.factor)
>
> Best,
> Rasmus
>
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