For long to wide, try *dcas*t function in reshape2 package. (*melt* is from wide to long). Subodh
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Miluji Sb <milujisb at gmail.com> wrote:
[image: Boxbe] <https://www.boxbe.com/overview> Miluji Sb ( milujisb at gmail.com) is not on your Guest List <https://www.boxbe.com/approved-list?tc_serial=27970590433&tc_rand=207238374&utm_source=stf&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ANNO_MWTP&utm_content=001&key=Rie9cz5zwnfjZUTkAyjbuHbUZyg4xi9ABP3GXbPk3wE%3D&token=0PSll570AP37QuCLt5N8K4YQYhleAA9pNQcUSXeBvi4ZnzoK6P%2BsykOpLi08Uza2> | Approve sender <https://www.boxbe.com/anno?tc_serial=27970590433&tc_rand=207238374&utm_source=stf&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ANNO_MWTP&utm_content=001&key=Rie9cz5zwnfjZUTkAyjbuHbUZyg4xi9ABP3GXbPk3wE%3D&token=0PSll570AP37QuCLt5N8K4YQYhleAA9pNQcUSXeBvi4ZnzoK6P%2BsykOpLi08Uza2> | Approve domain <https://www.boxbe.com/anno?tc_serial=27970590433&tc_rand=207238374&utm_source=stf&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ANNO_MWTP&utm_content=001&dom&key=Rie9cz5zwnfjZUTkAyjbuHbUZyg4xi9ABP3GXbPk3wE%3D&token=0PSll570AP37QuCLt5N8K4YQYhleAA9pNQcUSXeBvi4ZnzoK6P%2BsykOpLi08Uza2> Dear all, I have the following monthly data by coordinates: I would like to reshape this data to wide format so that each column is a coordinate and each row is a month, coordinate1 coordinate2 coordinate3... Month 1 Month 2 Is the best option to concatenate the iso3, lon, and lat variables to create an ID variable? I realize that this question might be very basic but I'm slightly baffled. Thank you. temp <- dput(head(precip_2000,20)) structure(list(iso3 = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L), .Label = c("AFG", "AGO", "ALB", "ARE", "ARG", "ARM", "AUS", "AUT", "AZE", "BDI", "BEL", "BEN", "BFA", "BGD", "BGR", "BHS", "BIH", "BLR", "BLZ", "BOL", "BRA", "BRN", "BTN", "BWA", "CAF", "CAN", "CHE", "CHL", "CHN", "CIV", "CMR", "COD", "COG", "COL", "CRI", "CUB", "CYP", "CZE", "DEU", "DJI", "DNK", "DOM", "DZA", "ECU", "EGY", "ERI", "ESH", "ESP", "EST", "ETH", "FIN", "FJI", "FLK", "FRA", "GAB", "GBR", "GEO", "GHA", "GIN", "GNB", "GNQ", "GRC", "GRL", "GTM", "GUF", "GUY", "HND", "HRV", "HTI", "HUN", "IDN", "IND", "IRL", "IRN", "IRQ", "ISL", "ISR", "ITA", "JAM", "JOR", "JPN", "KAZ", "KEN", "KGZ", "KHM", "KIR", "KOR", "KWT", "LAO", "LBN", "LBR", "LBY", "LCA", "LKA", "LSO", "LTU", "LUX", "LVA", "MAR", "MDA", "MDG", "MEX", "MKD", "MLI", "MMR", "MNE", "MNG", "MOZ", "MRT", "MWI", "MYS", "NAM", "NCL", "NER", "NGA", "NIC", "NLD", "NOR", "NPL", "NZL", "OMN", "PAK", "PAN", "PER", "PHL", "PNG", "POL", "PRI", "PRK", "PRT", "PRY", "QAT", "ROU", "RUS", "RWA", "SAU", "SDN", "SEN", "SJM", "SLB", "SLE", "SLV", "SOM", "SRB", "SUR", "SVK", "SVN", "SWE", "SWZ", "SYR", "TCD", "TGO", "THA", "TJK", "TKM", "TLS", "TUN", "TUR", "TWN", "TZA", "UGA", "UKR", "URY", "USA", "UZB", "VEN", "VNM", "VUT", "YEM", "ZAF", "ZMB", "ZWE" ), class = "factor"), lon = c(61L, 61L, 61L, 61L, 61L, 61L, 61L, 61L, 61L, 61L, 61L, 61L, 61L, 61L, 61L, 61L, 61L, 61L, 61L, 61L ), lat = c(32L, 32L, 32L, 32L, 32L, 32L, 32L, 32L, 32L, 32L, 32L, 32L, 33L, 33L, 33L, 33L, 33L, 33L, 33L, 33L), dm = structure(c(1L, 5L, 6L, 7L, 8L, 9L, 10L, 11L, 12L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 1L, 5L, 6L, 7L, 8L, 9L, 10L, 11L), .Label = c("2000m1", "2000m10", "2000m11", "2000m12", "2000m2", "2000m3", "2000m4", "2000m5", "2000m6", "2000m7", "2000m8", "2000m9"), class = "factor"), month = c(1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 6L, 7L, 8L, 9L, 10L, 11L, 12L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 6L, 7L, 8L), precip = c(0.996665806451613, 0.156711724137931, 0.242477419354839, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.121536, 0.38866064516129, 1.13312903225806, 0.355208275862069, 0.307277419354839, 0.008316, 0, 0, 0, 0.0008361290322581)), .Names = c("iso3", "lon", "lat", "dm", "month", "precip"), row.names = c(NA, 20L), class = "data.frame") Sincerely, Milu [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
*Subodh Adhikari* *????? ??????? * PhD Candidate Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, USA *"The Weak can Never Forgive. Forgiveness is the Attribute of the Strong" -* * Gandhi* *"Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere"* *- Martin Luther King, Jr. * [[alternative HTML version deleted]]