Hi: This also works, except that the result is of class 'table':
xtabs(COUNTS ~ USER_ID + SITE, data = RAW) SITE USER_ID SITE1 SITE2 SITE3 1 10 13 22 2 10 12 12 3 13 44 0 4 0 0 99 If you need a data frame, then the earlier responses apply. HTH, Dennis On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Mike Schumacher <mike.schumac...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to transpose data to create an analysis-friendly dataframe. See > below for an example, I was unable to use t(x) and I couldn't find a > function with options like PROC TRANSPOSE in SAS. > > The ideal solution handles variable quantities of SITE - but beggars can't > be choosers. :-) > > Thank you in advance, > > Mike > > ## INPUT DATA > USER_ID<-c(1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,4) > SITE > > <-c("SITE1","SITE2","SITE3","SITE1","SITE2","SITE3","SITE1","SITE2","SITE3") > COUNTS <-c(10,13,22,10,12,12,13,44,99) > > RAW<-data.frame(USER_ID,SITE,COUNTS) > RAW > > #ANSWER SHOULD LOOK LIKE > a<-c(1,2,3,4) > b<-c(10,10,13,0) > c<-c(13,12,44,0) > d<-c(22,12,0,99) > > RESULT<-data.frame(a,b,c,d) > names(RESULT)<-c("USER_ID","SITE1","SITE2","SITE3") > RESULT > > > > > -- > Michael Schumacher > mike.schumac...@gmail.com > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.