[R] swapping rows with columns

[Jonathan Baron]

On 03/12/02 15:41, Arne Mueller wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I've read in a data file as a frame and now I'd like the columns to be
>rows and the rows to be columns. What's the easiest way to do this in R?
>
>> class(d)
>[1] "data.frame"
>
>> rownames(d)
>[1] "98x101" "40x98"  "30x40"  "0x30"  
>
>> colnames(d)
> [1] "H..sapiens"      "C..elegans"      "D..melanogaster"
>"S..cerevisiae"  
> [5] "E..coli"         "M..tuberculosis" "B..subtilis"    
>"V..cholerae"    
> [9] "A..pernix"       "P..horikoshii"   "M..jannaschii"  
>"A..aeolicus"    
>[13] "H..pylori"       "M..genitalium"  
>
>Do I have to recunstruct the new frame or matrix manually?

No.  The t() function flips the rows and columns of a matrix.  It
also works on a data frame that can be coerced into a matrix, but
it yields a matrix.  So you can say

d2 <- as.data.frame(t(d))

-- 
Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
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