[R] Rearranging a data frame for multiple observations

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Very nice!

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Henrique Dallazuanna <wwwhsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Try this:
>
> do.call(rbind, lapply(unstack(x, V2 ~ V1), '[', 1:max(with(x,
> tapply(V2, V1, length)))))
>
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Newbie19_02 <nvanzuydam at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I think I'm struggling with a fairly simple problem but can't seem to solve
>> it.  I have multiple observations for one unique identifier.  Ultimately I
>> want to end up with one line per identifier with multiple observations in
>> rows. I'm really stuck any help would be really appreciated.
>>
>>
>> CAO0337134      05/09/95
>> CAO0337134      27/09/05
>> CAO0347741      10/10/04
>> CAO0347741      12/10/04
>> CAO0367128      11/07/05
>> CAO0367128      12/07/05
>> CAO0367128      14/07/05
>> CAO0367128      19/09/97
>> CAO0367128      20/09/97
>> CAO0374110      14/11/89
>> CAO0374110      17/11/89
>> CAO0374779      01/10/99
>> CAO0374779      28/09/99
>> CAO0374779      29/09/99
>>
>> Thanks
>> Natalie
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