melt.long {MKdescr} | R Documentation |
Transform data.frame to Long Form
Description
The function transforms a given data.frame form wide to long form.
Usage
melt.long(data, select, group)
Arguments
data |
data.frame that shall be transformed. |
select |
optional integer vector to select a subset of the columns of |
group |
optional vector to include an additional grouping in the output; for more details see examples below. |
Details
The function transforms a given data.frame form wide to long form. This is for example useful for plotting with ggplot2.
Value
data.frame in long form.
Author(s)
Matthias Kohl Matthias.Kohl@stamats.de
Examples
library(ggplot2)
## some random data
test <- data.frame(x = rnorm(10), y = rnorm(10), z = rnorm(10))
test.long <- melt.long(test)
test.long
ggplot(test.long, aes(x = variable, y = value)) +
geom_boxplot(aes(fill = variable))
## introducing an additional grouping variable
group <- factor(rep(c("a","b"), each = 5))
test.long.gr <- melt.long(test, select = 1:2, group = group)
test.long.gr
ggplot(test.long.gr, aes(x = variable, y = value, fill = group)) +
geom_boxplot()
[Package MKdescr version 0.8 Index]