Hi all, 
I have a (hopefully) simple newbie-level question. 
 
# I have data like this:
dtf <- data.frame(read.table(textConnection("var  value
  company  9887.1
  company  91117.0
  blaah  91.1
  etc  11
  etc  97111"), header=TRUE))
 
# I would like to have output like this (the index number may vary):
var  value.1 value.2
company 9887.1 91117.0
blah  91.1 NA
etc 11 97111
 
# I tried the following.
library(reshape)
cast(dtf, var~value, mean) # 'mean' because some function needs to be specified.
... this does not what I want, nor does t(dtf).
 
Can somebody help me with the correct transformation, or at least with which function to use best? Thank you in advance!

Cheers!!
Albert-Jan

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