[R] transpose a matrix?

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Wed Dec 21 13:06:29 CET 2005


t c wrote:

>   I have a data set in the following format: 
>    
>   x<-data.frame(id=c(‘a’,’b’,’c’),’2005-01-15’=c(100,225,425), ’2005-02-23’=c(1100,2325,4525))
>    
>   > x
>     id X2005.01.15 X2005.02.23
>   1  a         100        1100
>   2  b         225        2325
>   3  c         425        4525
>    
>    
>   I want:
>           id
>     a
>     b
>     c
>       X2005.01.15
>     100
>     225
>     425
>       X2005.02.23
>     1100
>     2325
>     4525
>    
>    
>   Any Suggestions?


I do not get your point, since subject line and body of your message are 
telling different stories. Do you want to have a list of vectors?

You certainly do not want to transpose a data frame with both factors 
(or character) and numeric values in it.....

Uwe Ligges



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