How to split a R data frame into vectors (unbind)

Question

I\'m relatively new to R and have been trying to find a solution to this problem for a while. I am trying to take a data frame and essentially do the reverse of rbind, so th

Answer 1

You can split the dataset by row after converting to matrix, set the names (setNames) of the list elements as 'Row1:Row3' and use list2env to assign the objects in the global environment.

 list2env(setNames(split(as.matrix(df),
        row(df)), paste0("Row",1:3)), envir=.GlobalEnv)

 Row1
 #[1] "A" "B" "C"
 Row2
 #[1] "D" "E" "F"

Answer 2

A slightly different approach than @akrun's:

Df <- data.frame(matrix(LETTERS[1:9],nrow=3))
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R> ls()
[1] "Df"
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sapply(1:nrow(Df), function(x){
  assign(paste0("Row",row.names(Df)[x]),
         value=Reduce(function(x,y){c(x,y)},Df[x,]),
         envir=.GlobalEnv)
})
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R> ls()
[1] "Df"   "Row1" "Row2" "Row3"
R> Row1
[1] "A" "D" "G"
R> Row2
[1] "B" "E" "H"
R> Row3
[1] "C" "F" "I"