[R] inverse function of melt

Joris Meys jorismeys at gmail.com
Fri Jun 18 16:19:41 CEST 2010


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cheers
Joris

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:39 PM, n.vialma at libero.it <n.vialma at libero.it> wrote:
>
> Dear list,
> I'm looking for an inverse function of melt(which is in package reshape).Namely, I had a data frame like this
> (Table1)
>
> YEAR  VAR1  VAR2  VAR3
> 1995      7           3         45
>
> 1996       5         6            32
>
> 1997       6          10         15
> I transformed my data by using the melt function and my data was reshaped in the following format:
> (Table2)
>
> YEAR    variable          value
>
> 1995        VAR1              7
>
> 1996         VAR1             5
>
> 1997         VAR1             6
> 1995        VAR2              7
>
> 1996         VAR2             5
>
> 1997         VAR2             6
> 1995        VAR3              7
>
> 1996         VAR3             5
>
> 1997         VAR3             6
>
>  Now I would like to come back to the original format, namely table1.
> Anyone could help me??
> Thanks for your attention!
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