On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Matthew Pharr wrote:
but I am uncertain of how to instruct R to reshape the data
set because I
need to move var1 (var1 is a survey question) out wide while placing
the values of var2 (var2 is the answer to the survey question) under
the correct survey question. Thank you for any help provided.
You want var1 to be the "timevar":
reshape(a,direction="wide",timevar="var1",idvar="id")
id var2.gender_m var2.age_22 var2.car_benz var2.reader var2.gender_f
1 12345 1 1 1 28 NA
5 23456 NA NA NA 30 1
10 34567 1 NA NA NA NA
var2.age_35 var2.workwk var2.kid_0_3 var2.age_45
1 NA NA NA NA
5 1 40 1 NA
10 NA NA NA 1
-thomas
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