[R] Data transformation

Henrique Dallazuanna wwwhsd at gmail.com
Wed Nov 11 12:02:51 CET 2009


Try this also:

xtabs(rep(p, 2) ~ rep(id, 2) + sprintf("var%d", c(code1, code2)), data = x)

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:10 AM, legen <legendy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you for your kind help. Your script works very well. Would you please
> show me how to change NaN to zero and column variables 1, 2, ..., 8 to var1,
> var2, ..., var8? Thanks again.
>
> Legen
>
>
>
> jholtman wrote:
>>
>> Is this what you want:
>>
>>> x <- read.table(textConnection("id    code1    code2         p
>> +  1        4        8           0.1
>> +  1        5        7           0.9
>> +  2        1        8           0.4
>> +  2        6        2           0.2
>> +  2        4        3           0.6
>> +  3        5        6           0.7
>> +  3        7        5           0.9"), header=TRUE)
>>>  closeAllConnections()
>>>  # create object like output from 'melt'
>>>  x.m <- data.frame(id=c(x$id, x$id), var=c(x$code1, x$code2),
>> +     variable=rep('p', 2*nrow(x)), value=c(x$p, x$p))
>>> require(reshape)  # use the reshape package
>>> cast(x.m, id ~ var, mean)
>>   id   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8
>> 1  1 NaN NaN NaN 0.1 0.9 NaN 0.9 0.1
>> 2  2 0.4 0.2 0.6 0.6 NaN 0.2 NaN 0.4
>> 3  3 NaN NaN NaN NaN 0.8 0.7 0.9 NaN
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:30 PM, legen <legendy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I have a dataset as below:
>>>
>>> id    code1    code2         p
>>>  1        4        8           0.1
>>>  1        5        7           0.9
>>>  2        1        8           0.4
>>>  2        6        2           0.2
>>>  2        4        3           0.6
>>>  3        5        6           0.7
>>>  3        7        5           0.9
>>>
>>> I just want to rewrite it as this (vertical to horizontal):
>>>
>>> id   var1  var2  var3  var4  var5  var6  var7  var8
>>> 1        0      0      0    0.1   0.9       0   0.9    0.1
>>> 2     0.4    0.2   0.6    0.6      0    0.2      0    0.4
>>> 3        0      0      0      0    0.8    0.7    0.9      0
>>>
>>> For the third subject, there are two values being equal to 5 in code1 and
>>> code2, but different values in p:  0.7 and 0.9, so I assigned their
>>> average
>>> 0.8 in var5.
>>>
>>> Does anybody can help me to handle this? Many thanks for your
>>> consideration
>>> and time.
>>>
>>> Legen
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>>
>> What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
>>
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