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Henry <hcco...@lbl.gov> wrote: >I know this is likely very simple. I want to change a matrix that was >given >to me not sorted by timestamp to sorted by timestamp. It was sorted >by >CRAH_Name. There are 264k records initially. The CRAH names start at >11 >and go to 98 but there are a number of missing values (CRAH_Name), >total >approx. 50. > >A small example of the given matrix > >Time_Stamp Power CRAH_Name >4/16/2012 00:00 3.4862 11 >4/16/2012 00:01 3.4862 11 >4/16/2012 00:02 3.61035 11 >4/16/2012 00:03 3.57215 11 >4/16/2012 00:04 3.6008 11 >4/16/2012 00:05 3.64855 11 >4/16/2012 00:06 3.64855 11 >4/16/2012 00:07 3.6008 11 >4/16/2012 00:08 3.639 11 >4/16/2012 00:09 3.6581 11 >4/16/2012 00:10 3.6963 11 >4/16/2012 00:00 2.618646 98 (timestamping starts over again at >00:00) >4/16/2012 00:01 2.195102 98 >4/16/2012 00:02 2.758223 98 >4/16/2012 00:03 2.796727 98 >4/16/2012 00:04 2.652337 98 >4/16/2012 00:05 2.233606 98 >4/16/2012 00:06 2.811166 98 >4/16/2012 00:07 2.690841 98 >4/16/2012 00:08 2.406874 98 >4/16/2012 00:09 2.811166 98 >4/16/2012 00:10 2.286549 98 > >I want to transform into a dataframe that looks like this.. >CRAH Name 11 12 >13............ 98 >timestamp ..01 power value power value power value >...........power value >timestamp ..02 power value power value power value >...........power value >timestamp ..03 power value power value power value >...........power value > >This is how I'm used to dealing with time series data. > >Thanks very much for any help. I would like to use standard R function >if >not too complicated. > > > > >-- >View this message in context: >http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Simple-matrix-transformation-question-tp4585044p4585044.html >Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >______________________________________________ >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.