Hi Johannes, Your example is tricky because the original df1 does not contain id columns that identify each cell in df2. If you want to use the reshape2 package for this I think you have to add a second id variable:
df1 <- data.frame(col1 = c("A","A","B","B"),col2 = c(1:4), col3 = c(1:4)) library(reshape2) library(plyr) df1 <- ddply(df1, "col1", transform, col0 = 1:length(col1)) tmp <- melt(df1, id.vars = c("col0","col1")) dcast(tmp, col0 ~ col1 + variable) Best, Ista On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Johannes Radinger <johannesradin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to split dataframe based on one colum and want > to connect the two dataframes by rows (like rbind). Here a small example: > > # The orgininal dataframe > df1 <- data.frame(col1 = c("A","A","B","B"),col2 = c(1:4), col3 = c(1:4)) > > # The datafame how it could look like > df2 <- data.frame(A.col2 = c(1,2), A.col3 = c(1,2), B.col2 = c(3,4), > B.col3 = c(3,4)) > > I think I already did a similar procedure sometime ago with the > cast() command from reshape-package but I cant remember correctly... > ...maybe someone can point me to the correct formula... > > Best > > /johannes > > ______________________________________________ > 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.