Michael Denslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Dear R users, > > I am a new user (probably obvious by my question) and > have really learned a lot from reading this list. > Thank you all very much. My main struggles with R are > with data manipulation. > > So here is my question... > I have data that is organized as below, this is a > short example. > > value count > 11232 25 > 15885 24 > 22464 20 > etc... > > the 'value' field is distances and the 'count' field > is the number of times that each distance occurs. So I > guess it is in the same format as the output for the > table() function. > > What I need to do is make one long vector (or list) > that includes all the actual numbers. In other words > 11232 listed 25 times followed by 15885 listed 24 > times etc. etc. Try something like this? dt<-data.frame(value=c(11123,14585),count=c(3,5)) exp.dt<-with(dt,rep(value,count)) > exp.dt [1] 11123 11123 11123 14585 14585 14585 14585 14585 -- David Winsemius ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
