wideByFactor {gdata}

Create multivariate data by a given factor

Description

Modify data frame in such a way that variables are “separated” into several columns by factor levels.

Usage

  wideByFactor(x, factor, common, sort=TRUE, keepFactor=TRUE)

Arguments

x

data frame

factor

character, column name of a factor by which variables will be divided

common

character, column names of (common) columns that should not be divided

sort

logical, sort resulting data frame by factor levels

keepFactor

logical, keep the ‘factor’ column

Details

Given data frame is modified so that the output represents a data frame with c + f + n * v columns, where c is a number of common columns for all levels of a factor, f is a factor column, n is a number of levels in factor f and v is a number of variables that should be divided for each level of a factor. Number of rows stays the same.

Value

A data frame where divided variables have sort of “diagonalized” structure.

Author(s)

Gregor Gorjanc

See Also

reshape in the stats package.

Examples

n <- 10
f <- 2
tmp <- data.frame(y1=rnorm(n=n),
                  y2=rnorm(n=n),
                  f1=factor(rep(letters[1:f], n/2)),
                  f2=factor(c(rep("M", n/2), rep("F", n/2))),
                  c1=1:n,
                  c2=2*(1:n))

wideByFactor(x=tmp, factor="f1", common=c("c1", "c2", "f2"))
wideByFactor(x=tmp, factor="f1", common=c("c1", "c2"))