HI, May be this helps: dat1<- read.table(text="date event 01-jan-04 4 02-jan-04 3 03-jan-04 2 04-jan-04 3 05-jan-04 2 06-jan-04 2 07-jan-04 4",sep="",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE) vec1 <- rep(1:nrow(dat1),dat1$event) res <- transform(dat1[vec1,],event=1,id=seq(length(vec1))) row.names(res) <- 1:nrow(res)
A.K. I have an event per day which I wish to expand . As an output I wish to have a long data format with a unique sequential id for all events. Sample data and what I desire to have is shown below Current stand date event 01-jan-04 4 02-jan-04 3 03-jan-04 2 04-jan-04 3 05-jan-04 2 06-jan-04 2 07-jan-04 4 My desired output for the first two rows date event id 01-jan-04 1 1 01-jan-04 1 2 01-jan-04 1 3 01-jan-04 1 4 02-jan-04 1 5 02-jan-04 1 6 02-jan-04 1 7 ______________________________________________ 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.