[R] Change data format query

Hadley Wickham h.wickham at gmail.com
Wed Feb 19 20:53:11 CET 2014


You might want to try reading
http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.html, which lays out the
principles by which you might want to organise your data, matching
each task with the appropriate reshape2 function.

Hadley

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:18 AM, drruddy gmail <drmarkruddy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> # Data manipulation problem #
>
> Please my Git repo at <https://github.com/markruddy/RAD.git>
>
> Running RStudio 0.97.248
>
> The dataset RYA13Report_transect_AB.csv is in a sort of 'longform' at the moment. Which I would like to change so that:
>
> 1. Each Pack_Name is a column
> 2. Each BH_Name is a row
> 3. Top-mOD are variables of Pack_Name
>
> I've played around with reshape but can't fathom it out.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Mark
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