[R] Howto crosstable-ing......

[Liaw, Andy]

Looks to me like you want something like reshape()...

Andy

> From: v.demartino2 at virgilio.it
> 
> I receive the following meteo dataset regularly, containing 
> the average
> daily temperatures (tMedia) of a certain month for 24 
> selected meteo-stations
> (COD_WMO) whose human-readable names are in (NOME).
> 
> str(tabella)
> `data.frame':	1038 obs. of  4 variables:
>  $ COD_WMO: int  16045 16045 16045 16045 16045 16045 16045 
> 16045 16045 16045
> ...
>  $ NOME   : Factor w/ 24 levels "ALGHERO","BARI/PALESE 
> MACCHIE",..: 22 22
> 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 ...
>  $ DATE   :'POSIXct', format: chr  "2005-05-01" "2005-05-02" 
> "2005-05-03"
> "2005-05-04" ...
>  $ tMedia : num  11.7 18.6 16.9 19.7 15.0 ...
> 
> 
> Here you are a short list of it:
>     COD_WMO      NOME       DATE   tMedia
> 505   16191 FALCONARA 2005-06-01  20.95
> 506   16191 FALCONARA 2005-06-02  20.15
> 507   16191 FALCONARA 2005-06-03  18.60
> 506   16191 FALCONARA 2005-06-02  20.15
> 507   16191 FALCONARA 2005-06-03  18.60
> 508   16191 FALCONARA 2005-06-04  22.30
> 509   16191 FALCONARA 2005-06-05     NA
> 510   16191 FALCONARA 2005-06-06     NA
> 511   16191 FALCONARA 2005-06-07  18.20
> 549   16206 GROSSETO 2005-06-01  20.65
> 550   16206 GROSSETO 2005-06-02  21.95
> 551   16206 GROSSETO 2005-06-03  22.25
> 552   16206 GROSSETO 2005-06-04  20.15
> 553   16206 GROSSETO 2005-06-05     NA
> 554   16206 GROSSETO 2005-06-06     NA
> 555   16206 GROSSETO 2005-06-07  22.35
> .....................................................................
> .....................................................................
> 
> 
> I need to rearrange tMedia into a new dataframe whose column 
> names are COD_WMO
>  (or   NOME) and the row is DATE.
> 
> ex.
> DATE            ALGHERO   BARI/PALESE ....  FALCONARA  
> GROSSETO ..........
> 2005-06-01       16.3             12.8                   17.3 
>          
>  14.0       ...........
> 2005-06-02       18.2               8.9                    
> 18.0        
>   17.9       ..........
> ..............................................................
> .................................
> 
> 
> I read some pieces of R-docs in the internet and run the MASS 
> chapter 2
> examples but without finding anything suitable to my purpose.
> 
> Could you please help me?
> 
> Ciao
> 
> Vittorio
> 
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