Problems splitting data frame into a nested list
I am a newbie to R and I have problem splitting a very large data frame into a nested list. I tried to look for help on the internet, but I was unsuccessful. I have a simplified example on how my data are organized: The headers are: 1 "station" (number) 2. "date.str" (date string) 3. "member" 4. "forecast time" 5. "data" I am not sure my data example will show up rightly, but if so, it look like this: 1. station date.str member forecast.time data1 2. 6019 20110805 mbr000 06 77 3. 6031 20110805 mbr000 06 28 4. 6071 20110805 mbr000 06 45 5. 6019 20110805 mbr001 12 22 6. 6019 20110806 mbr024 18