Dear all I have a data.frame like that :
father mother num_daughter daughter 291 3906 0 NULL 275 4219 0 NULL 273 4236 1 49410 281 4163 1 49408 274 4226 1 49406 295 3869 2 49403 49404 287 4113 0 NULL 295 3871 1 49401 292 3895 4 49396 49397 49398 49399 291 3900 3 49392 How to read it into R and transform it like that: father mother num_daughter daughter1 daughter2 daughter3 daughter4 291 3906 0 NULL 275 4219 0 NULL 273 4236 1 49410 281 4163 1 49408 274 4226 1 49406 295 3869 2 49403 49404 287 4113 0 NULL 295 3871 1 49401 292 3895 4 49396 49397 49398 49399 291 3900 3 49392 library (plyr) and library (reshape2) and other good packages are OK for me. Thanks a lot! Yao He ————————————————————————— Master candidate in 2rd year Department of Animal genetics & breeding Room 436,College of Animial Science&Technology, China Agriculture University,Beijing,100193 E-mail: yao.h.1...@gmail.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.