Hi, One way would be: womensrole <- read.table(text="education gender agree disagree sexe 1 0 Male 4 2 0 2 1 Male 2 0 0 3 2 Male 4 0 0 4 3 Male 6 3 0 5 4 Male 5 5 0 6 5 Male 13 7 0",sep="",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE) library(reshape2) res1 <- melt(womensrole,measure.vars=c("agree","disagree"),var="agree") res2 <- within(res1[rep(1:nrow(res1),res1$value),], agree <- agree=="agree")[,c(1,2,4,3)] res2New <- res2[order(res2$education),] row.names(res2New) <- 1:nrow(res2New)
A.K. On Monday, November 25, 2013 4:24 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> wrote: Dear all, I am trying to convert the following data frame into a format more useful for me: > library("HSAUR2", lib.loc="C:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.2/library") Loading required package: tools Attaching package: ‘HSAUR2’ The following object is masked _by_ ‘.GlobalEnv’: womensrole > head(womensrole) education gender agree disagree sexe 1 0 Male 4 2 0 2 1 Male 2 0 0 3 2 Male 4 0 0 4 3 Male 6 3 0 5 4 Male 5 5 0 6 5 Male 13 7 0 In 'womensrole', how do I convert 'agree' and 'disagree' variables into one proper binary variable, say: education gender agree sexe 1 0 Male TRUE 0 2 0 Male TRUE 0 3 0 Male TRUE 0 4 0 Male TRUE 0 5 0 Male FALSE 0 6 0 Male FALSE 0 7 1 Male TRUE 0 8 1 Male TRUE 0 9 2 Male TRUE 0 10 2 Male TRUE 0 11 2 Male TRUE 0 12 2 Male TRUE 0 [..] I'm sure there is an easy way to do this (in the form of 'melt', 'cast', etc.), but I'm not sure how to approach the problem. Regards, Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail ______________________________________________ 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.