[R] Split column

Lisaj lisajca at gmail.com
Tue Nov 24 22:22:43 CET 2009


Thank you for your help. But how to change the column names to var1.1,
var1.2, var2.1, and var2.2?

Lisa
 

Henrique Dallazuanna wrote:
> 
> Try this:
> 
> cbind(x$id, t(do.call(rbind, lapply(x[-1], sapply, switch, '1' =
> c(1,1), '2' = c(1, 2), '3' = c(2, 2)))))
> 
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Lisaj <lisajca at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello, R users,
>>
>> I have a dataset that looks like this:
>>
>> id   var1   var2
>>  1      1      3
>>  2      3      1
>>  3      2      1
>>  4      1      2
>>  5      2      3
>>
>> I want to split one column to two columns with 1 = 1 and 1, 2 = 1 and 2,
>> 3 =
>> 2 and 2:
>>
>> id   var1.1  var1.2  var2.1  var2.2
>> 1         1       1       2       2
>> 2         2       2       1       1
>> 3         1       2       1       1
>> 4         1       1       1       2
>> 5         1       2       2       2
>>
>> Can anyone please help how to get this done? Thanks a lot in advance
>>
>> Lisa
>>
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