Re: [R] Reshape from long to wide format with date variable
Thanks, Josh! The index variable (time) was my problem. My R skills are too low! :) Problem solved! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Reshape-from-long-to-wide-format-with-date-variable-tp3648833p3650995.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ 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.
[R] Reshape from long to wide format with date variable
Hi, I need to reshape my dataframe from a long format to a wide format. Unfortunately, I have a continuous date variable which gives me headaches. Consider the following example: id=c(034,034,016,016,016,340,340) date=as.Date(c(1997-09-28, 1997-10-06, 1997-11-04, 2000-09-27, 2003-07-20, 1997-11-08, 1997-11-08)) ref=c(2,2,1,1,2,1,1) data1=data.frame(id,date,ref) data1 id date ref 1 034 1997-09-28 2 2 034 1997-10-06 2 3 016 1997-11-04 1 4 016 2000-09-27 1 5 016 2003-07-20 2 6 340 1997-11-08 1 7 340 1997-11-08 1 I would like to have it like this: data2 id date1 date2 date3 ref1 ref2 ref3 1 034 1997-09-28 1997-10-06 NA22 NA 2 016 1997-11-04 2000-09-27 2003-07-20112 3 340 1997-11-08 1997-11-08 NA11 NA All I tried the reshape package but ended up in multiple variables for each of the dates and that is not what I would like to have. Thanks for you help. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Reshape-from-long-to-wide-format-with-date-variable-tp3648833p3648833.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ 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.
Re: [R] Reshape from long to wide format with date variable
Hi Pete, Try the reshape function (see ?reshape for documentation). It can be a bit confusing, but its worth learning if you deal with multiple observations per unit much. Code inline does what you want (though you might need a bit of tweaking to get pretty names, etc. HTH, Josh On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Pete Pete noxyp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I need to reshape my dataframe from a long format to a wide format. Unfortunately, I have a continuous date variable which gives me headaches. Consider the following example: id=c(034,034,016,016,016,340,340) date=as.Date(c(1997-09-28, 1997-10-06, 1997-11-04, 2000-09-27, 2003-07-20, 1997-11-08, 1997-11-08)) ref=c(2,2,1,1,2,1,1) data1=data.frame(id,date,ref) ## create time variable data1$time - with(data1, ave(1:nrow(data1), id, FUN = seq_along)) wdata1 - reshape(data1, idvar = id, timevar = time, direction = wide) wdata1 id date.1 ref.1 date.2 ref.2 date.3 ref.3 1 034 1997-09-28 2 1997-10-06 2 NA NA 3 016 1997-11-04 1 2000-09-27 1 2003-07-20 2 6 340 1997-11-08 1 1997-11-08 1 NA NA data1 id date ref 1 034 1997-09-28 2 2 034 1997-10-06 2 3 016 1997-11-04 1 4 016 2000-09-27 1 5 016 2003-07-20 2 6 340 1997-11-08 1 7 340 1997-11-08 1 I would like to have it like this: data2 id date1 date2 date3 ref1 ref2 ref3 1 034 1997-09-28 1997-10-06 NA 2 2 NA 2 016 1997-11-04 2000-09-27 2003-07-20 1 1 2 3 340 1997-11-08 1997-11-08 NA 1 1 NA All I tried the reshape package but ended up in multiple variables for each of the dates and that is not what I would like to have. Thanks for you help. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Reshape-from-long-to-wide-format-with-date-variable-tp3648833p3648833.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ 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. -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology University of California, Los Angeles https://joshuawiley.com/ __ 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.
Re: [R] Reshape from long to wide format with date variable
Hi:
Here's one way with the reshape package. I converted ref to numeric
and date to character string first. Sometimes these little things
matter...
library(plyr)
library(reshape)
# Modified original data; note the option in the data.frame() statement
id=c(034,034,016,016,016,340,340)
date=c(1997-09-28, 1997-10-06, 1997-11-04, 2000-09-27,
2003-07-20, 1997-11-08, 1997-11-08)
ref=c(2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1)
data1=data.frame(id, date, ref, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
# Add a new variable named occasion within id
data2 - ddply(data1, .(id), transform, occasion = seq_along(id))
# Use the cast() function in reshape twice, adjust names in each
c1 - cast(data2, id ~ occasion, value = 'date')
c2 - cast(data2, id ~ occasion, value = 'ref')
names(c1)[-1] - paste('date', 1:3, sep = '')
names(c2)[-1] - paste('ref', 1:3, sep = '')
# merge c1 and c2 by id:
merge(c1, c2, by = 'id')
The cast() function sets the rows to be ids, the columns to be
occasion and value to be the name of the variable whose values should
fill the cells attributable to id * occasion combinations.
HTH,
Dennis
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Pete Pete noxyp...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I need to reshape my dataframe from a long format to a wide format.
Unfortunately, I have a continuous date variable which gives me headaches.
Consider the following example:
id=c(034,034,016,016,016,340,340)
date=as.Date(c(1997-09-28, 1997-10-06, 1997-11-04, 2000-09-27,
2003-07-20, 1997-11-08, 1997-11-08))
ref=c(2,2,1,1,2,1,1)
data1=data.frame(id,date,ref)
data1
id date ref
1 034 1997-09-28 2
2 034 1997-10-06 2
3 016 1997-11-04 1
4 016 2000-09-27 1
5 016 2003-07-20 2
6 340 1997-11-08 1
7 340 1997-11-08 1
I would like to have it like this:
data2
id date1 date2 date3 ref1 ref2 ref3
1 034 1997-09-28 1997-10-06 NA 2 2 NA
2 016 1997-11-04 2000-09-27 2003-07-20 1 1 2
3 340 1997-11-08 1997-11-08 NA 1 1 NA
All I tried the reshape package but ended up in multiple variables for each
of the dates and that is not what I would like to have.
Thanks for you help.
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