[R] How to convert a single column into many rows

[Kenn Konstabel]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Zablone Owiti <zowiti at ncst.go.ke> wrote:
> Dear users,
>
> I wish to convert a column of data  containing  pentad (5day mean data)
> from 1962 - 2000 into rows with each row having 73 values (ie. 73 pentads
> per year).
>
>
>
>  1962  pent1  pent2  ............pent73
>
> .
> .
> .
> .
>
> 2000 pent1 pent2 ..............pent73
>
>
> What commands should I use to achieve this?
>
> Thanks
>

my.pentads<-paste(rep(1962:2000, each=73), 1:73)  # generate sample data
 matrix(my.pentads, ncol=73, byrow=TRUE)


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