solution: reshape package, melt function.
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 02:07 +0000, Alexandre Swarowsky wrote: > Hi, > > It's probably a simple issue but I'm struggling with that. I'll use the > example shown in the help page. > > head(Indometh) > wide <- reshape(Indometh, v.names="conc", idvar="Subject", > timevar="time", direction="wide") > head(wide) > reshape(wide, idvar="Subject", varying=list(2:12), > v.names="conc", direction="long") > > but, in my case I'll like the "time" column be filled with the row names with > the exception of "Subject", of course, instead of 1,2,3, and so on. > > I want something like that: > > Subject time conc > 1.1 1 conc.0.25 1.50 > 2.1 2 conc.0.25 2.03 > 3.1 3 conc.0.25 2.72 > > Thanks in advance, > > Alex -- Alexandre Swarowsky Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group University of California at Davis One Shields Avenue Davis CA 95618 Office: (530)752-4131 cell: (530)574-3028 ______________________________________________ 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.