Hi, Try: dat1 <- read.table(text="I V3 X210505 X210505.1 X417802 X417802.1 X420385 X420385.1 X420480 X420480.1 A A3205 B A B A B A B A M A3662 A B B B A B B B M AR0012 B B B B A B B B M AR0232 B B B B B B B A M AR0341 A A B A B A A B M AR0372 B B A A A B A B M A0051 B B B B B B B B M AR0549 A B B A B A B B",sep="",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
library(reshape2) res <- as.data.frame(acast(transform(melt(dat1[,-1],id.var="V3"),variable=gsub("\\..*","",variable)),variable~V3,value.var="value",function(x) paste(x,collapse=" ")),stringsAsFactors=FALSE) res1 <- res[,match(dat1$V3,colnames(res))] res1 # A3205 A3662 AR0012 AR0232 AR0341 AR0372 A0051 AR0549 #X210505 B A A B B B B B A A B B B B A B #X417802 B A B B B B B B B A A A B B B A #X420385 B A A B A B B B B A A B B B B A #X420480 B A B B B B B A A B A B B B B B A.K. For this I thought that will be way easier, but it is impossible for me (again) (and I just started to like R :)) With this example I want to get I V3 X210505 X210505.1 X417802 X417802.1 X420385 X420385.1 X420480 X420480.1 A A3205 B A B A B A B A M A3662 A B B B A B B B M AR0012 B B B B A B B B M AR0232 B B B B B B B A M AR0341 A A B A B A A B M AR0372 B B A A A B A B M A0051 B B B B B B B B M AR0549 A B B A B A B B this: A3205 A3662 AR0012 AR0232 AR0341 AR0372 A0051 AR0549 X210505 B A A B B B B B A A B B B B A B X417802 B A B B B B B B B A A A B B B A X420385 B A A B A B B B B A A B B B B A X420480 B A B B B B B A A B A B B B B B again, no idea... On Friday, January 10, 2014 9:50 AM, arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> wrote: Hi, Use ?reshape() dat1<- read.table(text="V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 1 210505 ARS B A 1 210505 BFGL A B 1 210505 NGS B B 1 210506 ARS B B 1 210506 BFGL A A 1 210506 NGS B B 1 210507 ARS B B 1 210507 BFGL A B 1 210507 NGS A B",sep="",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE) res <- reshape(dat1[,-1],timevar="V2",idvar="V3",direction="wide") colnames(res)[-1] <-gsub(".*\\.","",colnames(res)[-1]) res # V3 210505 210505 210506 210506 210507 210507 #1 ARS B A B B B B #2 BFGL A B A A A B #3 NGS B B B B A B A.K. Dear R users I have a question. I have example file: V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 1 210505 ARS B A 1 210505 BFGL A B 1 210505 NGS B B 1 210506 ARS B B 1 210506 BFGL A A 1 210506 NGS B B 1 210507 ARS B B 1 210507 BFGL A B 1 210507 NGS A B from which I want to get file which looks like this: V2 210505 210505 210506 210506 210507 210507 ARS B A B B B B BFGL A B A A A B NGS B B B B A B I think this can be done with a loop but unfortunatelly I'm not experienced with loops. Thank you very much for help! ______________________________________________ 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.