Hi Henrique,
 
*Thank you!* The reshape code does precisely what I want. 

Cheers!!
Albert-Jan

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From: Henrique Dallazuanna <wwwhsd@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [R] simple data transformation question
To: "Albert-Jan Roskam" <fomcl@yahoo.com>
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 2:45 PM


Try this:

reshape(cbind(id = as.numeric(dtf$var), dtf, time =  with(dtf,
ave(value, var, FUN = seq))), timevar="time", direction="wide")

Or:

xtabs(value ~ var + ave(value, var, FUN = seq), data = dtf)

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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