That does work, thank you. I didn't understand that the "fame" column would be the time varying column.
Toby On 28 Sep 2010 at 12:47, Michael Bedward wrote: > Hi Toby, > > I think this should work... > > reshape(dat, v.names=c("weight"), idvar=c("valley", "plot", "trt"), > timevar="fame", direction="wide") > > Michael > > > On 28 September 2010 12:17, Toby Gass <tobyg...@warnercnr.colostate.edu> > wrote: > > Hello, helpeRs, > > > > I've been trying, unsuccessfully, to change a dataframe from long to > > wide format using reshape (the original). I would appreciate it if > > someone could demonstrate the correct syntax. The script below will > > create a toy example. The new wide data should have a column name > > for each unique entry in the "fame" column. Under each column > > should be either the appropriate weight or na, if there is no match. > > Thus, the end product should have column names: > > > > valley plot trt 18w 16iso 12:0, etc. > > > > Here is the toy script for the starting data in long form: > > > > dat <- data.frame(fame = gl(4,1,10, labels = c( "18w", "16iso", > > "12:0", "16w")), valley = gl(2,6,10, labels = c("H", "M")), plot = > > gl(5, 2, 10), trt = gl(2,1,10, labels = c("e", "g")), weight = > > 1000*runif(10, 0, 1)) > > > > Thank you for your assistance. > > > > Toby > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.