Hello All, I have the following dataset:
Year 2006 2007 Jan Jan 0.0204 0.0065 Feb Feb 0.0145 0.0082 Mar Mar 0.0027 0.0122 > dput(d_tmp) structure(list(Year = c("Jan", "Feb", "Mar"), `2006` = c(0.0204, 0.0145, 0.0027), `2007` = c(0.0065, 0.0082, 0.0122)), .Names = c("Year", "2006", "2007"), row.names = c("Jan", "Feb", "Mar"), class = "data.frame") I am trying to use the apply function but the values seem to be getting coerced to characters. I could recast in my function ... but I suspect there should be an easier way. I can always use a for loop to get the output I need but just wondering if there a way to get the same using apply or some other function ... (the number of years can be changing in my requirement) My final output needs to be as follows: Year 2006 2006-Lbl 2007 2007-Lbl Jan 0.0204 '2.04%' 0.0065 '0.65%' Feb 0.0145 '1.45%' 0.0082 '0.82%' Mar 0.0027 '0.27%' 0.0122 '1.22%' i.e. > dput(d_final) structure(list(Year = structure(c(2L, 1L, 3L), .Label = c("Feb", "Jan", "Mar"), class = "factor"), X2006 = c(0.0204, 0.0145, 0.0027 ), X2006.Lbl = structure(c(3L, 2L, 1L), .Label = c("'0.27%'", "'1.45%'", "'2.04%'"), class = "factor"), X2007 = c(0.0065, 0.0082, 0.0122), X2007.Lbl = structure(1:3, .Label = c("'0.65%'", "'0.82%'", "'1.22%'"), class = "factor")), .Names = c("Year", "X2006", "X2006.Lbl", "X2007", "X2007.Lbl"), row.names = c(NA, -3L), class = "data.frame") Please advise. Santosh ______________________________________________ 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.