Dear Dennis and Peter,
Thank you for the suggestions - they work very well with my example data.
I *think* I've got it up and running using my real data (with 2000 columns)
too, with:
sprintf("%s%04d", "X", c(1:2000))
then the stacking/unstacking operations.
Thanks again for the help
Best wishes,
Matthew
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Ehlers [mailto:ehl...@ucalgary.ca]
Sent: 12 March 2011 11:09 AM
To: Dennis Murphy
Cc: Matthew Carroll; r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Column order in stacking/unstacking
On 2011-03-12 02:01, Dennis Murphy wrote:
> Hi:
>
> It would help if you named your variables such that alphanumeric ordering
> doesn't disturb your variable ordering. Having been burned by this a few
> times, I've learned the basics of sprintf() :) Here's your example
> revisited, along with an alternative stacking/unstacking display with
> package reshape.
>
> library(reshape)
> vnames<- paste('X', sprintf('%02d', c(1, 2, 10)), sep = '')
>> vnames
> [1] "X01" "X02" "X10"
<snip>
You can do this a bit more simply with sprintf:
vnames <- sprintf("%s%02d", "X", c(1, 2, 10))
Peter Ehlers
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