Felipe, I get the results like this by running the code: z <-read.table(text="date week length 7/13/2010 28 34 7/13/2010 28 35 7/14/2010 28 35 7/14/2010 28 35 7/14/2010 28 36 7/14/2010 28 36 7/20/2010 29 31 7/16/2010 29 34 7/18/2010 29 34 7/18/2010 29 34 7/21/2010 29 35 7/20/2010 29 36 7/21/2010 29 36 7/22/2010 29 36 7/16/2010 29 37 7/18/2010 29 37 7/20/2010 29 37 7/21/2010 29 37 7/21/2010 29 37 7/22/2010 29 37 7/22/2010 29 37",header=TRUE)
z$ID <- with(z,ave(seq_along(date),date,week,FUN=seq_along)) library(reshape2) dcast(z,date+ID~week,value.var="length")[,-2] date 28 29 1 7/13/2010 34 NA 2 7/13/2010 35 NA 3 7/14/2010 35 NA 4 7/14/2010 35 NA 5 7/14/2010 36 NA 6 7/14/2010 36 NA 7 7/16/2010 NA 34 8 7/16/2010 NA 37 9 7/18/2010 NA 34 10 7/18/2010 NA 34 11 7/18/2010 NA 37 12 7/20/2010 NA 31 13 7/20/2010 NA 36 14 7/20/2010 NA 37 15 7/21/2010 NA 35 16 7/21/2010 NA 36 17 7/21/2010 NA 37 18 7/21/2010 NA 37 19 7/22/2010 NA 36 20 7/22/2010 NA 37 21 7/22/2010 NA 37 ##Also, didn't got any error with ?reshape() If you don't want the `dates`, then: z$ID <- with(z,ave(seq_along(week),week,FUN=seq_along)) dcast(z,ID~week,value.var="length")[,-1] 28 29 1 34 31 2 35 34 3 35 34 4 35 34 5 36 35 6 36 36 7 NA 36 8 NA 36 9 NA 37 10 NA 37 11 NA 37 12 NA 37 13 NA 37 14 NA 37 15 NA 37 A.K. On Sunday, November 17, 2013 3:57 AM, Felipe Carrillo <mazatlanmex...@yahoo.com> wrote: Thanks Arun, I tried and got an error message, also the first line of code is showing the date as column header but I only want the week as column header. You can get rid of the date, I only need the week as column header and the values below it. dcast(z,date+ID~week,value.var="length")[,-2] date 7/13/2010 7/14/2010 7/16/2010 7/18/2010 7/20/2010 7/21/2010 7/22/2010 1 2010 28 28 29 29 29 29 29 2 2010 28 28 29 29 29 29 29 3 2010 NA 28 NA 29 29 29 29 4 2010 NA 28 NA NA NA 29 NA > reshape(z,direction="wide",idvar=c("date","ID"),timevar="week")[,-2] Error in `[.data.frame`(thistime, match(rval[, idvar], thistime[, idvar]), : undefined columns selected My dataset based on the "z" dataset should look like this: 28 29 <<<<<Column headers 35 31 35 34 35 34 36 35 36 36 36 36 37 37 37 37 37 37 37 Felipe D. Carrillo Supervisory Fishery Biologist Department of the Interior US Fish & Wildlife Service California, USA http://www.fws.gov/redbluff/rbdd_jsmp.aspx On Sunday, November 17, 2013 12:27 AM, arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> wrote: HI Felipe, >May be this works for you: >z$ID <- with(z,ave(seq_along(date),date,week,FUN=seq_along)) > >library(reshape2) >dcast(z,date+ID~week,value.var="length")[,-2] > >#or >reshape(z,direction="wide",idvar=c("date","ID"),timevar="week")[,-2] > > >A.K. > > > > > > > > > > >On Sunday, November 17, 2013 1:24 AM, Felipe Carrillo ><mazatlanmex...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > >Hello Arun, I was wondering if you can help me with this question > > How can I put the values of week(28,29) as column headers >and put the corresponding length values on each week number? >I heard about dcast but don't know how to use it yet. >z <-read.table(text="date week length >7/13/2010 28 34 >7/13/2010 28 35 >7/14/2010 28 35 >7/14/2010 28 35 >7/14/2010 28 36 >7/14/2010 28 36 >7/20/2010 29 31 >7/16/2010 29 34 >7/18/2010 29 34 >7/18/2010 29 34 >7/21/2010 29 35 >7/20/2010 29 36 >7/21/2010 29 36 >7/22/2010 29 36 >7/16/2010 29 37 >7/18/2010 29 37 >7/20/2010 29 >37 >7/21/2010 29 37 >7/21/2010 29 37 >7/22/2010 29 37 >7/22/2010 29 37",header=TRUE) > > > > > > > > > > > >Felipe D. Carrillo >Supervisory Fishery Biologist >Department of the Interior >US Fish & Wildlife Service >California, USA >http://www.fws.gov/redbluff/rbdd_jsmp.aspx > > ______________________________________________ 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.