[R] tabulate: switching columns and rows

[hadley wickham]

Hi Ricardo,

> Please, is there any way of controlling factors in row/columns when using ftable/xtabs? As far as I can see, the last cross-clasifing variable in the formula will appear in columns. The previous ones, in rows. For instance, is it possible to make  tension and replicate appear in columns?
>
> ftable(xtabs(breaks ~ wool + tension + replicate, data = warpbreaks))
>
> After some years using SAS proc tabulate I am afraid I don't get the point with R and cross-tabulation :-(

You might want to have a look at the reshape package,
http://had.co.nz/reshape, which provides a more general and flexible
framework for reshaping data in R.

The version of warpbreaks I have doesn't have the replicate variable,
so unfortunately I can't provide you with example code for this case.
However, you should be able to figure it out for your data using the
documentation available on the website.

Regards,

Hadley