How to reshape wide format data.frame to long format?
As for your second question, you could certainly do newcodesM = transform(newcodesM, variable1 = unlist(strsplit(variable,'\\.'))[1], variable2 = unlist(strsplit(variable, '\\.'))[2], variable3 = unlist(strsplit(variable,'\\.'))[3]) though I'm sure there is a more efficient use of strsplit in this context. Abhijit
On Jan 20, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Fredrik Karlsson wrote:
Dear list, I need to convert this data.frame
names(codesM)
[1] "key" "AMR.pa1.M" "AMR.pa2.M" "AMR.pa3.M" "AMR.pa4.M" [6] "AMR.pa5.M" "AMR.pa6.M" "AMR.pa7.M" "AMR.pa8.M" "AMR.pa9.M" [11] "AMR.pa10.M" "AMR.ta1.M" "AMR.ta2.M" "AMR.ta3.M" "AMR.ta4.M" [16] "AMR.ta5.M" "AMR.ta6.M" "AMR.ta7.M" "AMR.ta8.M" "AMR.ta9.M" [21] "AMR.ta10.M" "AMR.ka1.M" "AMR.ka2.M" "AMR.ka3.M" "AMR.ka4.M" [26] "AMR.ka5.M" "AMR.ka6.M" "AMR.ka7.M" "AMR.ka8.M" "AMR.ka9.M" [31] "AMR.ka10.M" "SMR.pa1.M" "SMR.pa2.M" "SMR.pa3.M" "SMR.pa4.M" [36] "SMR.pa5.M" "SMR.pa6.M" "SMR.pa7.M" "SMR.pa8.M" "SMR.pa9.M" [41] "SMR.pa10.M" "SMR.ta1.M" "SMR.ta2.M" "SMR.ta3.M" "SMR.ta4.M" [46] "SMR.ta5.M" "SMR.ta6.M" "SMR.ta7.M" "SMR.ta8.M" "SMR.ta9.M" [51] "SMR.ta10.M" "SMR.ka1.M" "SMR.ka2.M" "SMR.ka3.M" "SMR.ka4.M" [56] "SMR.ka5.M" "SMR.ka6.M" "SMR.ka7.M" "SMR.ka8.M" "SMR.ka9.M" [61] "SMR.ka10.M"
dim(codesM)
[1] 42 61
into a 3 x 2501 data.frame where the "key" variable is kept, the
values in columns 2-61 above is inserted into a "values" column and
the name of the column is inserted in a third column ("variable"
perhaps).
Like
key variable value
POSTOFF_1_1 AMR.pa1.M 5
POSTOFF_1_1 AMR.pa2.M 3
....
I think I should be able to do this using the "reshape" function, but
I cannot get it to work. I think I need some help to understand
this...
(If I could split the "variable" into three separate columns splitting
by ".", that would be even better.)
I appreciate all the help I could get.
/Fredrik
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