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#I have data presented in a "vertical" data frame as shown below in
data_original.
#I want this data in a matrix or "grid", as shown below.
#What I show below seems like one way this can be done.
#My question: Are there easier or better ways to do this, especially
in Base R, and also in R packages?
#reproducible example
data_original <- data.frame(year = c('1990', '1999', '1990', '1989'),
size = c('s', 'l', 'xl', 'xs'), n = c(99, 33, 3, 4) )
data_expanded <- expand.grid(unique(data_original$year),
unique(data_original$size), stringsAsFactors = FALSE )
colnames(data_expanded) <- c('year', 'size')
data_expanded <- merge(data_expanded, data_original, all = TRUE)
mat <- matrix(data = data_expanded $n, nrow =
length(unique(data_expanded $year)), ncol =
length(unique(data_expanded $size)) , byrow = TRUE, dimnames = list(
unique(data_expanded$year), unique(data_expanded$size) ) )
data_original
data_expanded
mat
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