Also > tbl <- xtabs(val~id+cat, dat1) > tbl cat id A B C D 1 2 0 4 0 3 0 1 0 0 5 2 0 0 0 6 3 5 2 0 8 0 5 0 2 9 0 0 0 3
To get your column names > dimnames(tbl)$cat <- paste0("cat", dimnames(tbl)$cat) > tbl cat id catA catB catC catD 1 2 0 4 0 3 0 1 0 0 5 2 0 0 0 6 3 5 2 0 8 0 5 0 2 ------------------------------------- David L Carlson Department of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77840-4352 -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of arun Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2013 7:49 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: marcos.takahashi Subject: Re: [R] Rows to Column Hi, Try: dat1 <- read.table(text="id cat val 1 A 2 1 C 4 3 B 1 5 A 2 6 A 3 6 B 5 6 C 2 8 B 5 8 D 2 9 D 3",sep="",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE) library(reshape2) res1 <- dcast(dat1,id~cat,value.var="val",fill=0) colnames(res1)[-1] <- paste0("cat",colnames(res1)[-1]) #or xtabs(val~id+cat,data=dat1) A.K. On Sunday, December 15, 2013 8:38 PM, marcos.takahashi <marcos.takaha...@mobly.com.br> wrote: Hi all, I'm kinda new in R programming and I need some help preparing a database to run logistic regression. I have data in a tuple form: *id cat val* 1 A 2 1 C 4 3 B 1 5 A 2 6 A 3 6 B 5 6 C 2 8 B 5 8 D 2 9 D 3 and would like to have it like: *id catA catB catC catD* 1 2 0 4 0 3 0 1 0 0 5 2 0 0 0 6 3 5 2 0 8 0 5 0 2 9 0 0 0 3 Could someone help me? I have already tried table function, but it doesn't return row and column names. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Rows-to-Column-tp4682245.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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. ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.