Hello,
I implemented two functions reshape_long and reshape_wide (see full working
example below) to reshape data frames.
I created several small examples and the two functions seemed to work
properly. However, using the reshape_wide function
on my real data sets (about 200.000 to 300.000 rows) failed. What happens is
set all values for X, Y and Z were set to 1.
The structure of my real data looks exactly the same as the small example
below. After working on it for 2 days I think the
problem is that the "primary key" (test_name, group_name and id) is only
unique in the wide form. After applying the
reshape_long function the primary key is not longer unique. I was wondering
if anyone can tell me whether the step
from d1 -> reshape_wide -> d2 can work at all because of the non uniqueness
of d1.
library(reshape2)
library(taRifx)
reshape_long <- function(data, ids) {
# Bring data into long form
data_long <- melt(data, id.vars = ids, variable.name="Data_Points",
value.name="value")
data_long$value <- as.numeric(data_long$value)
# Remove rows were analyte value is NA
data_long <- data_long[!is.na(data_long$value), ]
# Resort data
formula_sort <- as.formula(paste("~", paste(ids, collapse="+")))
data_long <- sort(data_long, f = formula_sort)
return(data_long)
}
reshape_wide <- function(data, ids) {
# Bring data into wide form
formula_wide <- as.formula(paste(paste(ids, collapse="+"), "~
Data_Points"))
data_wide <- dcast(data, formula_wide)
# Resort data
formula_sort <- as.formula(paste("~", paste(ids, collapse="+")))
data_wide <- sort(data_wide, f = formula_sort)
return(data_wide)
}
d <- data.frame(
test_name = c(rep("Test_A", 6), rep("Test_B", 6)),
group_name = c(rep("Group_C", 3), rep("Group_D", 3), rep("Group_C", 3),
rep("Group_D", 3)),
id = c("I1", "I2", "I3", "I4", "I5", "I6",
"I1", "I2", "I3", "I7", "I8", "I9"),
X = c(NA,NA,1,2,3,4,5,6,NA,7,8,9),
Y = as.numeric(10:21),
Z = c(NA,22,23,NA,24,NA,25,26,NA,27,28,29)
)
d
d1 <- reshape_long(d, ids=c("test_name", "group_name", "id"))
d1
d2 <- reshape_wide(d1, ids=c("test_name", "group_name", "id"))
d2
identical(d,d2)
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