If you are talking about changing from a "wide" format to "long" take a look at
?reshape --- Josh On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Thomas Jensen <thomas.jen...@eup.gess.ethz.ch> wrote: > Dear R list, > > I have an event history data set that is structured like this: > > Legislative act Discussion Agreement Time Event > Act1 2006-05-30 2006-06-19 20 1 > Act2 2004-03-01 2004-06-14 105 1 > . > . > . > > I have information on the meetings in the legislature between adoption > periods in a separate variable (the start and stop dates are included): > > Act1 meeting:2006-05-30, 2006-06-19. > Act2 meeting: 2004-03-22, 2004-04-26, 2004-06-14. > > I want to code this as a discrete event data set, so it should look like > this: > > Legislative act Event Meeting Time Count > Act1 0 2006-05-30 1 > Act1 1 2006-06-07 2 > Act2 0 2004-03-22 1 > Act2 0 2004-04-26 2 > Act2 1 2004-06-14 3 > > Can anyone tell me if it is possible to do this recoding in R, or do I > have to do it by hand? > > Best, Thomas > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Joshua Wiley Senior in Psychology University of California, Riverside http://www.joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ 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.
