Hello, I have a data frame like this:
> head(mc) FID IID PLATE 1 fam0110 G110 4RWG569 2 fam0113 G113 cherry 3 fam0114 G114 cherry 4 fam0117 G117 4RWG569 5 fam0118 G118 5XAV049 6 fam0119 G119 cherry ... > dim(mc) [1] 1625 4 > length(unique(mc$PLATE)) [1] 34 I am trying to make a new data frame which would look like this: FID IID PLATE 4RWG569 cherry 5XAV049 ... 1 fam0110 G110 4RWG569 2 1 1 2 fam0113 G113 cherry 1 2 1 3 fam0114 G114 cherry 1 2 1 4 fam0117 G117 4RWG569 2 1 1 5 fam0118 G118 5XAV049 2 1 1 6 fam0119 G119 cherry 1 2 1 ... so the new data frame would have an additional 34 columns (for every unique mc$PLATE) and if in the row of PLATE column the value is ==to that column name I would have 2 otherwise 1 I tried to do this with: library(reshape2) > m2=dcast(mc, IID ~ PLATE) Using PLATE as value column: use value.var to override. Please advise, Ana ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.