Hi Iglucia, I am not sure how your dataset looks like. Does it look similar to this:
> dat4<-data.frame(patient=rep(c(1:10), > rep(3,10)),var=rep(c("cycle0","cycle1","cycle2"),rep(1,3)),value=c(rnorm(15,1,0.5),NA,rnorm(5,1,0.5),NA,rnorm(8,1,0.5))) > dat4 patient var value 1 1 cycle0 1.8826827 2 1 cycle1 1.0316985 3 1 cycle2 1.0084754 4 2 cycle0 1.1822553 5 2 cycle1 1.5494087 6 2 cycle2 0.9173749 7 3 cycle0 0.3935503 8 3 cycle1 0.7012282 9 3 cycle2 0.5213031 10 4 cycle0 0.8330390 11 4 cycle1 0.6430550 12 4 cycle2 0.7751283 13 5 cycle0 1.4092714 14 5 cycle1 0.8120330 15 5 cycle2 0.6255491 16 6 cycle0 NA 17 6 cycle1 0.1068520 18 6 cycle2 0.7556006 19 7 cycle0 1.4322698 20 7 cycle1 1.6109262 21 7 cycle2 0.9650534 22 8 cycle0 NA 23 8 cycle1 0.3861208 24 8 cycle2 1.1349206 25 9 cycle0 1.5659958 26 9 cycle1 1.8725942 27 9 cycle2 1.5676570 28 10 cycle0 1.0895054 29 10 cycle1 1.1941775 30 10 cycle2 1.3932515 A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: lglucia <libgray3...@gmail.com> To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 12:07 AM Subject: [R] Combine subsets by factor level I'm attempting to change a data set by compressing rows into columns. Currently there are several rows that all have information about one "patient," but at different cycles. I'm trying to make each patient only have one row in the data set. Does anyone know a good way to combine data sets by factor level? I've separated the groups into different subsets by cycle, but not every patient has data for every cycle (i.e. there are 1200 who have cycle 0, but only 200 of those have a cycle 1, and a different number have cycles higher than that, etc). I then made the patient number the identifying label. If there is a way to column-combine these subsets by the factor level of these patient names, and leave any patients that are missing a cycle as NA? If anyone has insight on how to do this, or a better way to complete what I'm trying to do, I'd appreciate it! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Combine-subsets-by-factor-level-tp4632472.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.