[R] dataframe transposition

Michael Lapsley mlapsley at ndirect.co.uk
Wed Oct 13 02:21:56 CEST 1999


Dear R-helpers,

I wonder if I could impose upon you for forther assistance, this
time with dataframes:  hopefully this will be of general interest,
as I personally have found them hard to get to grips with.

I was trying to transpose rows and cols and move col1 to the names.
Then all sorts of things go wrong.  Although the end result looks
the same, page() shows the structure to be quite different compared
to building it by hand.

What is going on? And how am I supposed to do this. (And no,
I didn't expect that the output of plot() would be sensible!)


Thanks again,

Michael

> wk
  authorisor count(*)
1        JMC      4  
2        LCA      259
3        MCM      136
4        MDH      266
5        ML       27 
6        SA       1  
> 
>page(wk)
structure(list(authorisor = c("JMC", "LCA", "MCM", "MDH", "ML", 
"SA"), "count(*)" = c("4", "259", "136", "266", "27", "1")),
 .Names =c("authorisor", 
"count(*)"), row.names = c("1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6"), class = "data.frame")

>wk[,1]->dnames
>as.data.frame(t(wk))->wk
>wk[-1,]->wk
>names(wk)<-dnames
>wk
         JMC LCA MCM MDH  ML  SA
count(*) 4   259 136 266 27  1 

> plot(wk)
Error: non-numeric data type in frame
> 
>page(wk3)
structure(list(JMC = structure("4  ", .Names = "count(*)"), LCA =
structure("259", .Names = "count(*)"), 
MCM = structure("136", .Names = "count(*)"), MDH = structure("266",
 .Names= "count(*)"), 
ML = structure("27 ", .Names = "count(*)"), SA = structure("1  ", .Names =
"count(*)")), .Names = c("JMC", 
"LCA", "MCM", "MDH", "ML", "SA"), row.names = "count(*)", class = "data.frame")


rbindnd(c(4,259,136,266,27,1))->wk2
> as.data.frame(rbind(c(4,259,136,266,27,1)))->wk2
> names(wk2)<-dnames
> wk2
  JMC LCA MCM MDH ML SA
1   4 259 136 266 27  1
> page (wk2)
structure(list(JMC = 4, LCA = 259, MCM = 136, MDH = 266, ML = 27, 
    SA = 1), .Names = c("JMC", "LCA", "MCM", "MDH", "ML", "SA"
), row.names = "1", class = "data.frame")

> 


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E-Mail: Michael Lapsley <mlapsley at ndirect.co.uk>
Date: 13-Oct-99
Time: 01:12:23

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