[R] Rearrange data.

[Ritwik Sinha]

Hi,

I am trying to rearrange the following data

d.f <- data.frame(x=c(1,1,2,2), y=c(1,2,1,2), vals=c("a11", "a12",
"a21", "a22"))

to look like a table with x as the rows and y as the columns, something like

    y  1             2
x
1    a11         a12
2    a21         a22

I tried doing this

funny <- function(x,y){d.f[d.f$x==x & d.f$y==y,3]}

outer(1:2,1:2, FUN="funny")
But get the error

Error in outer(1:2, 1:2, FUN = "funny") : dim<- : dims [product 4] do
not match the length of object [2]

What am I doing wrong? I am sure there are a hundred different ways of
doing this.

version

platform i486-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i486
os       linux-gnu
system   i486, linux-gnu
status
major    2
minor    2.1
year     2005
month    12
day      20
svn rev  36812
language R

-- 
Ritwik Sinha
Graduate Student
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Case Western Reserve University

http://darwin.cwru.edu/~rsinha