[R] Split column

Henrique Dallazuanna wwwhsd at gmail.com
Tue Nov 24 18:49:07 CET 2009


Try this:

cbind(x$id, t(do.call(rbind, lapply(x[-1], sapply, switch, '1' =
c(1,1), '2' = c(1, 2), '3' = c(2, 2)))))

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Lisaj <lisajca at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello, R users,
>
> I have a dataset that looks like this:
>
> id   var1   var2
>  1      1      3
>  2      3      1
>  3      2      1
>  4      1      2
>  5      2      3
>
> I want to split one column to two columns with 1 = 1 and 1, 2 = 1 and 2, 3 =
> 2 and 2:
>
> id   var1.1  var1.2  var2.1  var2.2
> 1         1       1       2       2
> 2         2       2       1       1
> 3         1       2       1       1
> 4         1       1       1       2
> 5         1       2       2       2
>
> Can anyone please help how to get this done? Thanks a lot in advance
>
> Lisa
>
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