Try this:

 reshape(x, direction = 'long', varying = list(3:5), timevar = "gene",
v.names = "value")

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:22 PM, xin wei <xinwei@stat.psu.edu> wrote:

>
> hi, everyone:
>
> i have a question on the reshape function. i have the following dataset :
> gene   tissue        patient1 patient2 patient3.............
> _________________________________________________
> gene1   breast         10       20       50
> gene2   breast         20       40       60
> gene3   breast         100      200      300
>
> which i hope to convert to the following format:
>
> gene patientID value  gene1
> -----------------------------
> gene1   1       10    10
> gene1   2       20    20
> gene1   3       50    100
> gene2   1       20    10
> gene2   2       40    20
> gene2   3       60    100
>
> the column "gene" is required and column "tissue" is not needed. I use the
> following syntax to perform this task:
>
> tdata<- reshape(data, varying=names(data)[-c(1,2)],direction="long",
> timevar
> ="label",v.names="value",time=names(data)[-c(1,2)]);
>
> however, i lose the column "gene" in the resulting tranposed dataset. I did
> my best to go through the help doc for reshape. however, I am frustrated
> that the examples used in the help doc is kind o hard to follow to me. Can
> anyone help me modify the code to keep the column "gene" in the resulting
> table?
>
> Any constructive suggestion is welcome.
> thanks
>
>
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