Hi, apple<- read.table(text=" Fam.name,Item,AMT.SALE.NET.PROMO,X.CY..QTY.SALE.TOT 9475,Imported Fruits,22110276001,0,436 9499,Imported Fruits,22110277001,0,236 9523,Imported Fruits,22110278001,0,71 ",sep=",",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE) str(apple) #'data.frame': 3 obs. of 4 variables: # $ Fam.name : chr "Imported Fruits" "Imported Fruits" "Imported Fruits" # $ Item : num 2.21e+10 2.21e+10 2.21e+10 # $ AMT.SALE.NET.PROMO: int 0 0 0 # $ X.CY..QTY.SALE.TOT: num 436 236 71
Here, it changed the class of some of the variables. new<-sapply(apple[,-4],rep,apple[,4]) str(as.data.frame(new,stringsAsFactors=FALSE)) #'data.frame': 743 obs. of 3 variables: # $ Fam.name : chr "Imported Fruits" "Imported Fruits" "Imported Fruits" "Imported Fruits" ... # $ Item : chr "22110276001" "22110276001" "22110276001" "22110276001" ... # $ AMT.SALE.NET.PROMO: chr "0" "0" "0" "0" ... new1<-apple[rep(seq_len(nrow(apple)),apple[,4]),-4] row.names(new1)<- 1:nrow(new1) str(new1) #'data.frame': 743 obs. of 3 variables: # $ Fam.name : chr "Imported Fruits" "Imported Fruits" "Imported Fruits" "Imported Fruits" ... # $ Item : num 2.21e+10 2.21e+10 2.21e+10 2.21e+10 2.21e+10 ... # $ AMT.SALE.NET.PROMO: int 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .. A.K. I try to replicate the rows according to the number of quantity occurred. Its row should be be sum of the quantity. is there any wrong with my code? thanks. apple Fam.name Item AMT.SALE.NET.PROMO X.CY..QTY.SALE.TOT 9475 Imported Fruits 22110276001 0 436 9499 Imported Fruits 22110277001 0 236 9523 Imported Fruits 22110278001 0 71 9552 Imported Fruits 22110306001 0 69 9571 Imported Fruits 22110314001 0 20 9579 Imported Fruits 22110315001 0 80 9604 Imported Fruits 22110317001 0 61 9635 Imported Fruits 22110321001 0 1026 9697 Imported Fruits 22110334001 0 223 9720 Imported Fruits 22110335001 0 214 9744 Imported Fruits 22110336001 0 102 9768 Imported Fruits 22110337001 0 146 9868 Imported Fruits 22110354001 118.8 17 9893 Imported Fruits 22110360001 0 43 9904 Imported Fruits 22110363001 0 49 9920 Imported Fruits 22110364001 0 1 9938 Imported Fruits 22110365001 205.4 33 new<-sapply(apple[,-4],rep,apple[,4]) nrow(new) [1] 33572 ______________________________________________ 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.