Hi,
I was wondering if there is anything more efficient than split to do the
kind of conversion in the subject. If I create a data frame as in

system.time({fd =  data.frame(x=1:2000, y = rnorm(2000), id = paste("x",
1:2000, sep =""))})
  user  system elapsed
  0.004   0.000   0.004

and then I try to split it

> system.time(split(fd, 1:nrow(fd)))
   user  system elapsed
  0.333   0.031   0.415


You will be quick to notice the roughly two orders of magnitude difference
in time between creation and conversion. Granted, it's not written anywhere
that they should be similar but the latter seems interpreter-slow to me
(split is implemented with a lapply in the data frame case) There is also a
memory issue when I hit about 20000 elements (allocating 3GB when
interrupted). So before I resort to Rcpp, despite the electrifying feeling
of approaching the bare metal and for the sake of getting things done, I
thought I would ask the experts. Thanks


Antonio

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