Re: [R] Data Frame housekeeping

2011-05-25 Thread Scott Hatcher
Hello Dr. Winsemius, First of all, thank you for your prompt and helpful reply. Also, for providing something I hoped would be produced from joining this mailing list: a means of discovering incredibly useful packages such as the "reshape2" one you have introduced me too. I have a follow up

Re: [R] Data Frame housekeeping

2011-05-25 Thread David Winsemius
On May 25, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Scott Hatcher wrote: Hello Dr. Winsemius, First of all, thank you for your prompt and helpful reply. Also, for providing something I hoped would be produced from joining this mailing list: a means of discovering incredibly useful packages such as the "reshape

Re: [R] Data Frame housekeeping

2011-05-24 Thread David Winsemius
On May 24, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Scott Hatcher wrote: Hello, I have a large data frame that is organized by date in a peculiar way. I am seeking advice on how to transform the data into a format that is of more use to me. The data is organized as follows: STN_ID YEAR MM ELEM X1

Re: [R] Data Frame housekeeping

2011-05-24 Thread Jonathan Daily
My suggestion, since bold doesn't show up in a text only mailing list, would be to look into the function ?aggregate. It looks like something like (assuming your data is in a mydat): mydat.new <- aggregate(cbind(STN_ID, YEAR, MM, DAY) ~ ELEM + ?, mydat, FUN = ?) #this is up to you Alternatively,

[R] Data Frame housekeeping

2011-05-24 Thread Scott Hatcher
Hello, I have a large data frame that is organized by date in a peculiar way. I am seeking advice on how to transform the data into a format that is of more use to me. The data is organized as follows: STN_ID YEAR MM ELEM X1 X2 X3 X4 X5X6