[R] creating Pivot

John Kane jrkrideau at inbox.com
Wed Jul 25 15:17:57 CEST 2012


# note file name is xx.

library(reshape2)

 dcast(xx, name ~ color, value.var = "values")

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: saileshchowdary at gmail.com
> Sent: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:41:19 -0700 (PDT)
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] creating Pivot
> 
> Hi Friends,
> 
> 
> I'm new to R.I  have a data frame :
> 
> xxx  having  columns      color    name  values
>                                                   R          XXX     10
>                                                   G          YYY      4
>                                                   Y           ZZZ      5
>                                                   G          XXX     2
>                                                     Y         XXX     3
>                                                    R          YYY      2
>                                                    Y          YYY       1
>                                                    R         ZZZ       2
>                                                    G         ZZZ       3
> 
> 
> Now i want to have the data  in this format               R    G    Y
> 
> 
> XX X       10   2     3
> 
> YYY         2    4     1
> 
> ZZZ          2   3      5
> 
> Can you please help me on this.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Namit
> 
> 
> 
> 
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