Try this:

xtabs(quantity ~ food + transaction, DF)

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:50 PM, chris99 <cheakes@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi I need some help trying to restructure a data frame:
>
> I have:
> food    transaction     quantity
> pizza         BUY              5
> pizza         SELL              3
> apple         BUY              2
> orange       SELL              1
> pizza         BUY               2
>
>
> And the data frame I want to make is:
>
> food        BUY          SELL
> pizza         7             3
> apple         2             0
> orange       0             1
>
>
>
> I can't figure out the commands to use. Can anyone help?
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