Thank you! That worked if I coded it like this: twelldata <- cbind(welldata$Chemical, stack(welldata, names(welldata))) names(twelldata)[names(twelldata)=="ind"] <- "WellID"
Henrique Dallazuanna wrote: > > Try this: > > cbind(DF$Chemical, stack(DF, names(DF))) > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:24 AM, baxterj <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I am just starting to code in R and need some help as I am used to doing >> this >> in SAS. >> >> I have a dataset that looks like this: >> >> Chemical Well1 Well2 Well3 Well4 >> BOD 13.2 14.2 15.5 14.2 >> O2 7.8 2.6 3.5 2.4 >> TURB 10.2 14.6 18.5 17.3 >> and so on with more chemicals.... >> >> I would like to transpose my data so that it looks like this: >> Chemical WellID Value >> BOD Well1 13.2 >> BOD Well2 14.2 >> BOD Well3 15.5 >> BOD Well4 14.2 >> O2 Well1 7.8 >> O2 Well2 2.6 >> .... and so on >> >> In sas I would code it like this: >> proc sort data=ds1; by chemical; run; >> Proc Transpose data=ds1 out=ds2; >> by chemical; >> var Well1 Well2 Well3 Well4; >> run; >> data ds3; set ds2; >> rename _name_ = WellID; >> rename col1 = value; >> run; >> >> How can I do this in R?? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks! >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/SAS-user-now-converting-to-R---Help-with-Transpose-tp25645393p25645393.html >> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > > > -- > Henrique Dallazuanna > Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil > 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/SAS-user-now-converting-to-R---Help-with-Transpose-tp25645393p25649504.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

