[R] reshape from wide to long, ordering of "varying"

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:05 PM, stefan.duke at gmail.com
<stefan.duke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have data in the following form
>
>      age sex Int.Prev.Est.1 Int.Prev.Est.2 Int.Prev.Est.3
> Int.Prev.Est.4 Int.Prev.Est.5
> 93110  93   0       23.75482       57.86592       9.755003
> 4.343534       4.280714
> 93610  93   1       53.36475       39.47247       4.381618
>
> and want to get it in the form:
>
> age sex cat  Int.Prev.Est
> 93   0     1   23.75482
> 93   0     2   57.86592
> 93   0     3   9.755003
> 93   0     4   4.343534
> (....)

Try this:

reshape(UK.INT, dir = "long", idvar = 1:2, varying = list(3:7),
v.names = "Int.Prev.Est", timevar = "cat")


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