I looked at this solution: [R-friendly way to convert R data.frame column to a vector?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7070173/r-friendly-way-to-convert-r-data-frame-column-to-a-vector)

but each solution seems to involve manually declaring the name of the vector being created.

I have a large dataframe with about 224 column names. I would like to break up the data frame and turn it into 224 different vectors which preserve their label without typing them all manually. Is there a way to step through the columns in the data frame and produce a vector which has the same name as the column or am I dreaming?