[R] table with 3 variables

Eik Vettorazzi E.Vettorazzi at uke.uni-hamburg.de
Thu Feb 19 13:25:53 CET 2009


Maybe reshape will help you, but I'm in doubt that your posted desired 
result fits your given data - e.g shouldn't  subject 101 Q3 give "Y"?

xx<-data.frame(Subject=rep(100:101, each=4), 
Quarter=rep(paste("Q",1:4,sep=""),2), Boolean = rep(c("Y","N"),4))
reshape(xx,timevar="Quarter",idvar="Subject",direction="wide",v.names="Boolean")

hth.

Pascal Candolfi schrieb:
> I have the initial matrice:
>
>   
>> *data.frame(Subject=rep(100:101, each=4), Quarter=rep(paste("Q",1:4,
>>     
> sep=""),2), Boolean = rep(c("Y","N"),4))*
>   Subject Quarter Boolean
> 1    100      Q1       Y
> 2    100      Q2       N
> 3    100      Q3       Y
> 4    100      Q4       N
> 5    101      Q1       Y
> 6    101      Q2       N
> 7    101      Q3       Y
> 8    101      Q4       N
> ...
>   
>
> And I would like to group the Subject by Quarter using as a result in the
> table the value of the third variable (Boolean). The final result would
> give:
>
>   Subjet Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
> 1    100  Y  Y  Y  Y
> 2    101  N  N  N  N
> ...
>   
>
> I started using the *table(Subject, Quarter)* but can't find a way to
> correspond the Boolean information in the table....
> Thanks in advance for the ideas...
>
> Pascal Candolfi
>
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