I have a data frame with data like this:
A B C D
a1 b1 c1 d1
a1 b1 c2 d2
a1 b1 c3 d3
a2 b2 c1 d1
a2 b2 c3 d3
How would I go about transforming that into?
A B c1 c2 c3
a1 b1 d1 d2 d3
a2 b2 d1 d3
In base R, you can use reshape()
:
reshape(mydf, direction = "wide", idvar = c("A", "B"), timevar = "C")
# A B D.c1 D.c2 D.c3
# 1 a1 b1 d1 d2 d3
# 4 a2 b2 d1 <NA> d3
You can also use tidyr
and dplyr
together, like this:
library(dplyr)
# devtools::install_github("hadley/tidyr")
library(tidyr)
mydf %>% group_by(A, B) %>% spread(C, D)
# Source: local data frame [2 x 5]
#
# A B c1 c2 c3
# 1 a1 b1 d1 d2 d3
# 2 a2 b2 d1 NA d3
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