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 -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/help-for-reshape-function-tp2259286p2259286.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
