Hey Bing,

Reshape's the ticker -- ?reshape.

For example, reshape(myFrame, idvar = "ID", timevar = "TEST.A") should
do most of the trick.

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bing Ho
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 10:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [R] Transform variable number of rows per subject to column
variables?

Hello,

I am very new to R, but I am having trouble with my dataset.

I have a data frame where a subject has a variable number of multiple 
observations for each row, which I wish the transform these 
observations to column variables.

An example of the data frame
ID      TEST.A  TEST.B
1       10      1
1       13      2
1       11      1
2       15      2
2       17      3

And I wish to transform it to the following:
ID      TEST.A1 TEST.A2 TEST.A3 TEST.B1 TEST.B2 TEST.B3
1       10              13              11              1
2               1
2       15              17              NA              2
3               NA

In other words, for the variable number of repeated follow up 
studies, a new column variable for each subject, but they are grouped 
by the original test.

Thank you for any help - I'm realizing that I am a terrible programmer!

Bing Ho

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