[R] About reshape dataset

lily li chocold12 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 22 19:52:28 CEST 2016


The code I'm using is:
require(reshape)
DF2 = melt(DF, id.vars = c('year', 'month', 'day'), measure.vars =
c('site1_elev', 'site2_elev', 'site1_temp', 'site2_temp'))

But it didn't work.

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 11:50 AM, lily li <chocold12 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi R users,
>
> I want to melt a dataframe, but it mixed up the variables.
>
> DF is the original dataset:
> year  month  day  site1_elev  site2_elev  site1_temp  site2_temp
> 2000     5        6        1300          1500            20
>  21
> 2000     5        7        1300          1500            21              22
> 2000     5        8        1300          1500            19              20
> 2000     5        9        1300          1500            22              23
>
> How to melt the dataframe and get the following dataset? Thanks for your
> help.
>
> year  month  day  siteID   elev   temp
> 2000    5         6       1      1300    20
> 2000    5         6       2      1500    21
> 2000    5         7       1      1300    21
> 2000    5         7       2      1500    22
>
>

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