Can you provide a brief reproducible example for us to play with? Scott On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Stijn Van Daele wrote: > Dear R users, > > I have a problem with reshaping data. I know such questions have been asked > before, but I can't get it right, neither with the reshape function nor with > the melt function. > > My dataset has about 407 variables and about 48000 cases. > > Each case looks as follows: > V1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6 v7 x1 y1 x2 y2 .... x200 y200 > > V1 is unique, v2-v7 are settings (that are linked to V1) and x and y are > measures > > What I would like is for each V1 is a combination of its unique id, the > settings that apply to that case and then the X and Y values (these are > linked to each other, so belong in the same row). Something like this: > V1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6 v7 x1 y1 > V1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6 v7 x2 y2 > ... > V1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6 v7 x200 y200 > > I have difficulties with the fact that I have two varying variables (x and y) > that should stay together. > > Could anyone help this R-newbie out? > > Thanks in advance, > Stijn > ______________________________________________ > 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. >
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