How to transfer dataframe `raw_df` to `list` row by row?

Question

How to transfer data frame raw_df to list row by row? Desired output: wished_list

 raw_df <- data.frame(cat=c('a','b','c'),value=c('high','mid','low'))
 wished_list <- list(a='high',b='mid',c='low')

Answer 1

One way to solve your probem:

split(raw_df$value, raw_df$cat)

$a
[1] "high"

$b
[1] "mid"

$c
[1] "low"

Answer 2

One option would be:

as.list(setNames(raw_df$value, raw_df$cat))

$a
[1] "high"

$b
[1] "mid"

$c
[1] "low"