Split polygon parts of a single SpatialPolygons Object

Question

In R, I have single SpatialPolygons object (i.e. multi-polygons) containing several hundred polygons. I would like to split this SpatialPolygons object

Answer 1

This will return a list of SpatialPolygons instead of ordinary Polygons (which some of the answers do).

SpP %>% split(1:length(.))