[R] Transforming data for nice output table

Rui Barradas ru|pb@rr@d@@ @end|ng |rom @@po@pt
Mon Aug 20 22:37:12 CEST 2018


Hello,

This is a very frequent question.
I could rewrite one or two answers taken from StackOverflow:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5890584/how-to-reshape-data-from-long-to-wide-format


But there you will have more options.


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

On 20/08/2018 20:17, David Doyle wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to generate tables of my data out of R for my report.
> 
> My data is setup in the format as follows and the example can be found at:
> http://doylesdartden.com/R/ExampleData.csv
> 
> Location        Date        Year      GW_Elevation
> 127(I)        5/14/2006     2006       752.46
> 119(I)        5/14/2006     2006       774.67
> 127(I)        6/11/2007     2007       752.06
> 119(I)        6/11/2007     2007       775.57
> 
> I would like to generate a table that showed
> 
> Location    GW_Elevation 2006    GW_Elevation 2007    GW_Elevation xxx.....
> 
> 119(I)                    774.67                      775.57
>            xxxx
> 127(I)                    752.46                      752.06
>            xxxx
> XXXX                          XX                           XX
> 
>   Any thoughts on how to transform the data so it would be in this format??
> 
> Thank you for your time
> 
> David Doyle
> 
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