How to convert a matrix to a list of column-vectors in R?
Gavin’s answer is simple and elegant. But if there are many columns, a much faster solution would be: lapply(seq_len(ncol(x)), function(i) x[,i]) The speed difference is 6x in the example below: > x <- matrix(1:1e6, 10) > system.time( as.list(data.frame(x)) ) user system elapsed 1.24 0.00 1.22 > system.time( lapply(seq_len(ncol(x)), function(i) x[,i]) ) user system elapsed 0.2 … Read more