This work fine with paste. Thanks Gabor.

Seb

Gabor Grothendieck a écrit :
> Try this using the BOD data frame that comes with R or
> try using interaction in place of paste:
>
> split(BOD, do.call(paste, c(BOD, sep = ":")), drop=TRUE)
>
>
> On Nov 25, 2007 10:23 AM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> Thanks Jim and Herinque for you reply.
>>
>> The substitution you are both proposing works fine, except when a or b 
>> contains
>> decimal numbers (which is mostly my case in a real dataset). In this case, 
>> there
>> is no distinction between the decimal point and the one introduced by the 
>> split
>> function.
>> If the split function cannot be customized, then I guess I have to first
>> substitute the decimal point in my dataset by e.g. a * sign and change it 
>> back
>> to a . when the split is done...
>>
>> Sebastien
>>
>> jim holtman a écrit :
>>
>>     
>>> Here is one way:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> a<-1:10
>>>> b<-21:30
>>>> mydata<-data.frame(a,b)
>>>> mydata.split<-split(mydata,(mydata[,1:2]),drop=TRUE)
>>>> x <- mydata.split
>>>> # customize the names
>>>> names(x) <- sapply(strsplit(names(x), "\\."), paste, collapse="-my
>>>>         
>> character-")
>>     
>>>> x
>>>>         
>>> $`1-my character-21`
>>>   a  b
>>> 1 1 21
>>>
>>> $`2-my character-22`
>>>   a  b
>>> 2 2 22
>>>
>>> $`3-my character-23`
>>>   a  b
>>> 3 3 23
>>> ...........
>>>
>>> On Nov 24, 2007 6:15 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Dear R-users,
>>>>
>>>> The following code splits a very simple dataframe into a list, each element
>>>>         
>> of
>>     
>>>> the list being one line of the dataframe. You will see that the split
>>>>         
>> function
>>     
>>>> names each element of the list by using uses the content of a and b and
>>>>         
>> merging
>>     
>>>> them with a "." character. Is there a way to customize this character?
>>>>
>>>> a<-1:10
>>>> b<-21:30
>>>> mydata<-data.frame(a,b)
>>>> mydata.split<-split(mydata,(mydata[,1:2]),drop=TRUE)
>>>> mydata.split
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>>>>
>>>> Sebastien
>>>>
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