Hi all, I have a data.frame with the following colnames pattern:
x1 y11 x2 y21 y22 y23 x3 y31 y32 ...
I.e. I have an x followed by a few y's. What I would like to do is turn this wide format into a tall format with two columns: "x", "y". The structure is that xi needs to be associated with yij (e.g. x1 should next to y11 and y12, x2 should be next to y21, y22, and y23, etc.).
x y x1 y11 x2 y21 x2 y22 x2 y23 x3 y31 x3 y32 ...
I have looked at ?reshape but I didn't see how it could work with this structure. I have a solution using nested for loops (see below), but it's slow and not very efficient. I would like to find a vectorised solution that would achieve the same thing.
Now, for an example:
x <- data.frame(x1 = 1: 5, y11 = 1: 5,
x2 = 6:10, y21 = 6:10, y22 = 11:15,
x3 = 11:15, y31 = 16:20,
x4 = 16:20, y41 = 21:25, y42 = 26:30, y43 = 31:35)
# which are the x columns
nmx <- grep("^x", names(x))
# which are the y columns
nmy <- grep("^y", names(x))
# grab y values
y <- unlist(x[nmy])
# reserve some space for the x's
z <- vector("numeric", length(y))
# a loop counter
k <- 0
n <- nrow(x)
seq.n <- seq(n)
# determine how many times to repeat the x's
repy <- diff(c(nmx, length(names(x)) + 1)) - 1
for(i in seq(along = nmx)) {
for(j in seq(repy[i])) {
# store the x values in the appropriate z indices
z[seq.n + k * n] <- x[, nmx[i]]
# move to next block in z
k <- k + 1
}
}
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