Thanks Josh, But I am not sure if the reshape function can create new rows based on the meeting variable. For the second act there are three meetings, i.e. one meeting between discussion and agreement, and this should be entered as a separate row.
Best, Thomas On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 07:45 -0700, Joshua Wiley wrote: > If you are talking about changing from a "wide" format to "long" take a look > at > > ?reshape > > > --- > Josh > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Thomas Jensen > <thomas.jen...@eup.gess.ethz.ch> wrote: > > Dear R list, > > > > I have an event history data set that is structured like this: > > > > Legislative act Discussion Agreement Time Event > > Act1 2006-05-30 2006-06-19 20 1 > > Act2 2004-03-01 2004-06-14 105 1 > > . > > . > > . > > > > I have information on the meetings in the legislature between adoption > > periods in a separate variable (the start and stop dates are included): > > > > Act1 meeting:2006-05-30, 2006-06-19. > > Act2 meeting: 2004-03-22, 2004-04-26, 2004-06-14. > > > > I want to code this as a discrete event data set, so it should look like > > this: > > > > Legislative act Event Meeting Time Count > > Act1 0 2006-05-30 1 > > Act1 1 2006-06-07 2 > > Act2 0 2004-03-22 1 > > Act2 0 2004-04-26 2 > > Act2 1 2004-06-14 3 > > > > Can anyone tell me if it is possible to do this recoding in R, or do I > > have to do it by hand? > > > > Best, Thomas > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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.
