RE: [R] data.frame into list by columns; merge and row.names

2005-02-13 Thread Tiago R Magalhaes
thanks to Andy Liaw and james holtman that replied to my posting this is very basic stuff, but for people strugling with these concepts - as I am... - here goes a more detailed explanation # what I wanted was to create a list where every element would be a column of a given data.frame the

RE: [R] data.frame into list by columns; merge and row.names

2005-02-12 Thread Liaw, Andy
From: Tiago R Magalhaes Hi a) I want to make a list out of a data.frame, where each element of the list is a column of the data.frame. I looked in the archives and saw a lot of postings but surprsingly none elucidated me. I also tried the split, aggregate help files and counldn't

Re: [R] data.frame into list by columns; merge and row.names

2005-02-12 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Tiago R Magalhaes tiago17 at socrates.Berkeley.EDU writes: : : Hi : : a) : I want to make a list out of a data.frame, where each element of the : list is a column of the data.frame. : I looked in the archives and saw a lot of postings but surprsingly : none elucidated me. I also tried the