[R] Transforming data

[jim holtman]

Here are some examples of the transformations that you can do:

> x <- 1:6
> x
[1] 1 2 3 4 5 6
> (z <- matrix(x, ncol=2, byrow=TRUE))
     [,1] [,2]
[1,]    1    2
[2,]    3    4
[3,]    5    6
> as.vector(z)
[1] 1 3 5 2 4 6
> as.vector(t(z))
[1] 1 2 3 4 5 6
>


On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:12 AM, jenny <jennytimp at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> My data look like this:
> Col1
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 6
> .......
>
> My questions are:
> (1) How do I get it in the following format?
> Col1 Col2
> 1    2
> 3    4
> 5    6
> .......
>
> (2) How do I transform the data in 2 column format above back to the single column format?
>
> Thanks in advance for your reply!
>
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