[R] How to arrange the data

[Alain Guillet]

Hi,

You can use the reshape package and the melt function :

melt(data, id="date")

Alain


On 17-Dec-10 10:40, Amy Milano wrote:
> Dear R helpers
>
> I have one data as given below.
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> date                     value1          value2             value3
> 30-Nov-2010           100                 40                 61
> 25-Nov-2010           108                 31                 88
> 14-Sep-2010            11                 180               56
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> I want the following output
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> date                 name       amount
> 30-Nov-2010      value1        100
> 30-Nov-2010      value2         40
> 30-Nov-2010      value3         61
> 25-Nov-2010      value1       108
> 25-Nov-2010      value2         31
> 25-Nov-2010      value3         88 
> 14-Sep-2010      value1        11
> 14-Sep-2010      value2      180
> 14-Sep-2010      value3      56
>
>
> I have presented here a small part of large data. I tried to convert the data into matrix, then transpose etc. but things are not working for me. Please guide
>
> Thanking in advance
>
> Amy Milano
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