dfcols.list: Convert the columns of a 'data.frame' to a 'list'

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Description

Sometimes, it is useful to have the columns of a data.frame as separate list items or vectors. unlist is useful for creating a single vector, but not for creating multiple vectors. The dfcols.list function is a simple convenience function that allows for such transformations.

Usage

  dfcols.list(data, vectorize = TRUE)

Arguments

data	The input data.frame
vectorize	Logical. Should the function return a list of single-column data.frames, or a simple vector of values? Defaults to TRUE.

Author(s)

Ananda Mahto

Examples

dat <- data.frame(A = c(1:2), B = c(3:4), C = c(5:6))
dfcols.list(dat)
dfcols.list(dat, vectorize = FALSE)

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