Hi all,
 
I am using ftable and xtabs to get total counts of species per location per 
hight category (understory, midstory and overstory). i can save the data in 
almost the format i would like it to be - but not quite. Here it is an example 
of what i get:
 
x - is a dataframe with the following columns: LocationID, Species, 
PercentCover, Category
where Category tells if the Species belongs to understory, midstory or 
overstory 
 
y1 <- ftable(xtabs(PercentCover ~ LocationID + Species + Category, data=x))y2 
<- format(y1, quote = FALSE, sep = “,”)write.table(y2, “test1.csv”, row.names = 
FALSE, col.names = FALSE, sep = “,”)If i read the test1.csv it will look like 
that:                                                             Category      
          Midstory                 Overstory               Understory
LocationID             Species
Loc1                       A                                                    
       0                             0                             10
                               B                                                
           10                           20                           0
                               C                                                
           55                           0                             10
                               ….                                               
          …                           …                           …
Loc2                       A                                                    
       0                             0                             0
                               B                                                
           5                             60                           0
                               C                                                
           35                           0                             25
                               …                                                
          …                           …                           …
What i would like: (1) eliminate the column (Category) because it is empty 
anyway (i suppose i can create a new data.frame from y2 in which i skip column 
"Category"); (2) have LocationID, Species, Midstory, Overstory, and Understory 
on the same row; (3) have the column LocationIDfilled in between Loc1 and Loc2 
with Loc1 and not an empty string, and so on for each location.Any suggestions 
will be very greatly appreciated, thanks,Monica

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