Try this:

reshape(UK.INT, direction = 'long', varying = list(grep("Int.Prev.Est",
names(UK.INT))))


On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:05 PM, stefan.duke@gmail.com <stefan.duke@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello,
> I have data in the following form
>
>      age sex Int.Prev.Est.1 Int.Prev.Est.2 Int.Prev.Est.3
> Int.Prev.Est.4 Int.Prev.Est.5
> 93110  93   0       23.75482       57.86592       9.755003
> 4.343534       4.280714
> 93610  93   1       53.36475       39.47247       4.381618
> 1.622119       1.159044
> 94110  94   0       23.47514       58.23936      10.789339
> 3.690415       3.805741
> 94610  94   1       53.34524       39.32675       4.602774
> 1.520247       1.204988
> 95110  95   0       23.76256       58.18757       9.583178
> 4.186825       4.279866
> 95610  95   1       53.14037       39.55376       4.313944
> 1.632805       1.359124
>
> and want to get it in the form:
>
> age sex cat  Int.Prev.Est
> 93   0     1   23.75482
> 93   0     2   57.86592
> 93   0     3   9.755003
> 93   0     4   4.343534
> (....)
> 95   1    4    1.632805
> 95   1   5      1.359124
>
>
> I am getting close with reshape, but somehow the categorie varialbe is
> orderd 1...1, 2...2,3...3,4...4,5....5 instad as 1,2,3,4,5,1,2,3....
>
> reshape(UK.INT,  idvar=1:2,    times=1:5, varying=c("Int.Prev.Est.1",
> "Int.Prev.Est.2", "Int.Prev.Est.3", "Int.Prev.Est.4",
> "Int.Prev.Est.5"),v.names='cat', direction="long") #
>
>
> Here is some example data
>
> dput(tail(UK.INT))
>
> structure(list(age = c(93, 93, 94, 94, 95, 95), sex = c(0, 1,
> 0, 1, 0, 1), Int.Prev.Est.1 = c(2647L, 19706L, 1832L, 15229L,
> 1277L, 11456L), Int.Prev.Est.2 = c(6448L, 14576L, 4545L, 11227L,
> 3127L, 8527L), Int.Prev.Est.3 = c(1087L, 1618L, 842L, 1314L,
> 515L, 930L), Int.Prev.Est.4 = c(484L, 599L, 288L, 434L, 225L,
> 352L), Int.Prev.Est.5 = c(477L, 428L, 297L, 344L, 230L, 293L)), .Names
> = c("age",
> "sex", "Int.Prev.Est.1", "Int.Prev.Est.2", "Int.Prev.Est.3",
> "Int.Prev.Est.4", "Int.Prev.Est.5"), row.names = c("93110", "93610",
> "94110", "94610", "95110", "95610"), class = "data.frame")
>
> I am wondering whether this is really feasible with reshape. Thanks
> for any hint.
> Best,
> stefan
>
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