[R] Help with reshape/reshape2 needed

[Jim Lemon]

Hi Tom,
Or perhaps:

#assume the data frame is named "tadf"
library(prettyR)
stretch_df(tadf,1,2)

Jim


On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 6:50 AM, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com> wrote:
> The reason it doesn't work easily with reshape/reshape2 is that the
> order of the rows is not determined. Your answer could be
>
>      1957      1958 ...      1985       1986
> 0.8625000 0.7500000 ... 0.7307692 0.23750000
> 0.0733945 0.6435644 ...        NA 0.05769231
> 0.5096154        NA ...        NA 0.65137615
>
> or
>
>      1957      1958 ...      1985       1986
> 0.0733945 0.6435644 ...        NA 0.05769231
> 0.8625000 0.7500000 ... 0.7307692 0.23750000
> 0.5096154        NA ...        NA 0.65137615
>
> or
>
>      1957      1958 ...      1985       1986
> 0.8625000 0.6435644 ...        NA 0.23750000
> 0.0733945         NA    0.7307692 0.05769231
> 0.5096154 0.7500000 ...        NA 0.65137615
>
> or any other combination of orders. You might not care about the
> order, but reshape does.
>
> The usual way around it is to just make up an order variable, e.g.,
> assuming your data.frame is named "example_data" and the columns are
> named "year" and "score":
>
> example_data <- do.call(rbind,
>                         lapply(split(example_data,
>                                      example_data$year),
>                                transform,
>                                obs = seq_along(year)))
>
> dcast(example_data,
>       obs ~ year,
>       value.var = "score")
>
> Best,
> Ista
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Thomas Adams <tea3rd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all:
>>
>> I'm struggling with getting my data re-formatted using functions in
>> reshape/reshape2 to get from:
>>
>> 1957 0.862500000
>> 1958 0.750000000
>> 1959 0.300000000
>> 1960 0.287500000
>> 1963 0.675000000
>> 1964 0.937500000
>> 1965 0.025000000
>> 1966 0.387500000
>> 1969 0.087500000
>> 1970 0.275000000
>> 1973 0.500000000
>> 1974 0.362500000
>> 1976 0.925000000
>> 1978 0.712500000
>> 1979 0.337500000
>> 1980 0.700000000
>> 1981 0.425000000
>> 1982 0.212500000
>> 1983 0.312500000
>> 1986 0.237500000
>> 1958 0.643564356
>> 1963 0.250000000
>> 1968 0.211538462
>> 1976 0.317307692
>> 1981 0.673076923
>> 1985 0.730769231
>> 1986 0.057692308
>> 1957 0.073394495
>> 1966 0.742574257
>> 1961 0.082568807
>> 1964 0.165137615
>> 1965 0.137614679
>> 1959 0.128712871
>> 1968 0.587155963
>> 1969 0.660550459
>> 1970 0.477064220
>> 1971 0.513761468
>> 1973 0.449541284
>> 1974 0.128440367
>> 1968 0.415841584
>> 1977 0.009174312
>> 1979 0.339449541
>> 1981 0.596330275
>> 1982 0.348623853
>> 1984 0.146788991
>> 1986 0.651376147
>> 1959 0.451923077
>> 1965 0.750000000
>> 1962 0.326732673
>> 1964 0.782178218
>> 1970 0.336538462
>> 1975 0.277227723
>> 1978 0.712871287
>> 1957 0.509615385
>> 1960 0.490384615
>> 1961 0.721153846
>> 1966 0.298076923
>> 1969 0.413461538
>> 1971 0.500000000
>> 1972 0.692307692
>> 1974 0.653846154
>> 1984 0.049504950
>> 1978 0.442307692
>> 1973 0.079207921
>> 1983 0.355769231
>> 1984 0.038461538
>> 1979 0.237623762
>> 1982 0.564356436
>>
>> to:
>>
>> 1957                  1958               1959             1960 ...
>> 1985           1986
>> 0.509615385  0.750000000  0.451923077  0.287500000 ...
>> 0.651376147
>> 0.509615385
>>
>> and so on. It's likely the column lengths will be different, so I'm
>> guessing padding with NAs will be needed. I have on the order of 1335 rows
>> with years spanning 1957 to 2016.
>>
>> Thank you...
>> Tom
>>
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