[R] tranform a table?

[bbimber]

hello everyone,

i'm new to R, so i hope you dont mind a fairly basic R question.  we're
using R to manipulate the results of SQL queries and create an HTML output. 
I'm starting with a table that looks essentially like this:

Name    Field1     Field2
John      value1     value2
Jane      value3     value4

My table is stored as a dataframe.  I'd like to efficiently produce an
output that iterates through each row, transposes it and outputs an HTML
table (one per row).  like this:

Name: John
Field1: value1
Field2: value2

Name: Jane
Field1: value3
Field2: value4

I can accomplish this by looping through each row, then outputting that
row's table.  This gets the job done, but it seems there must be a better
way.  I'm going to need to do this sort of conversion a lot,
so the simpler the better.  is there a better way to approach it than the
code below?  is there a more general term for the sort of transformation i'm
trying to make that might help guide my searching?

i realize i need to look into better methods of outputting HTML tables (like
r2html).

here's the basic idea.  'labkey.data' is the data frame produced by my SQL
query:

D<-labkey.data
H<-colnames(D)
T<-t(D)
L<-length(D$id)

output <- ""

for(i in 1:L) {
R<-my.row <- D[i, ]
R<-t(R)
Len<-length(R)

output <- paste(output, "<table border=0>")
for(j in 1:Len) {
output <- paste(output,"<tr><td>", H[j],":</td><td>", R[j], "</td>")
}

output <- paste(output, "</table><p>")

}

write(output, file="${htmlout:output}")

Thanks for any help. 
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