Hi, Please use ?dput() to show the data. dat <- read.table(text="id name seq 101 as 1 102 ld 2 103 eg 3 101 as 4 104 bs 5 103 eg 6 105 ka 7 104 bs 8",sep="",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE) res1 <- aggregate(seq~.,data=dat,FUN=I) res1 <- res1[order(res1$id),] ##creates the column 'seq' as a list #or res2 <- aggregate(seq~.,data=dat,FUN=paste,collapse=",") res2 <- res2[order(res2$id),] #seq as character column
#or library(plyr) res3 <- ddply(dat,.(id,name),summarise,seq=paste(seq,collapse=",")) A.K. hi, users solve this one id name seq 101 as 1 102 ld 2 103 eg 3 101 as 4 104 bs 5 103 eg 6 105 ka 7 104 bs 8 finaly output is id name seq 101 as 1,4 102 ld 2 103 eg 3,6 104 bs 5,8 105 ka 7 solve pls...................... ______________________________________________ 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.