Re: [R] Reshape from long to wide

Thanks a lot, I tried one of the ways you guys showed me and it totally work. Just for fun, I tried all the others and with some modifications here and there they work fine too. It was time consuming but definitely worth as a good learning experience. Thanks again -- View this message in context

Re: [R] Reshape from long to wide

]) Cheers,Tyler > From: jorgeivanve...@gmail.com > Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:29:08 -0400 > To: alyaba...@gmail.com > CC: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Reshape from long to wide > > Hi aly, > > Try > > # your data > x <- structure(list(family = c(14L, 1

Re: [R] Reshape from long to wide

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 7:01 PM, aly wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm a total beginner in R and this question is probably very simple but I've > spent hours reading about it and can't find the answer. I'm trying to > reshape a data table from long to wide format. I've tried reshape() and > cast() but I get

Re: [R] Reshape from long to wide

Hi aly, Try # your data x <- structure(list(family = c(14L, 14L, 15L, 15L, 17L, 17L, 18L, 18L, 20L, 20L, 24L, 24L, 25L, 25L, 27L, 27L, 28L, 28L, 29L, 29L ), length = c(18L, 7L, 7L, 21L, 50L, 21L, 36L, 21L, 36L, 42L, 56L, 42L, 43L, 56L, 15L, 42L, 7L, 42L, 56L, 49L)), .Names = c("family", "length")

[R] Reshape from long to wide

Hi, I'm a total beginner in R and this question is probably very simple but I've spent hours reading about it and can't find the answer. I'm trying to reshape a data table from long to wide format. I've tried reshape() and cast() but I get error messages every time and I can't figure why. In my da

Re: [R] Reshape from long to wide format with date variable

Thanks, Josh! The index variable (time) was my problem. My R skills are too low! :) Problem solved! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Reshape-from-long-to-wide-format-with-date-variable-tp3648833p3650995.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [R] Reshape from long to wide format with date variable

Hi: Here's one way with the reshape package. I converted ref to numeric and date to character string first. Sometimes these little things matter... library(plyr) library(reshape) # Modified original data; note the option in the data.frame() statement id=c("034","034","016","016","016","340","340

Re: [R] Reshape from long to wide format with date variable

Hi Pete, Try the reshape function (see ?reshape for documentation). It can be a bit confusing, but its worth learning if you deal with multiple observations per unit much. Code inline does what you want (though you might need a bit of tweaking to get pretty names, etc. HTH, Josh On Wed, Jul 6

[R] Reshape from long to wide format with date variable

Hi, I need to reshape my dataframe from a long format to a wide format. Unfortunately, I have a continuous date variable which gives me headaches. Consider the following example: > id=c("034","034","016","016","016","340","340") > date=as.Date(c("1997-09-28", "1997-10-06", "1997-11-04", "2000-09-