hsMatrixToListForm: Convert "Matrix Form" (wide format) to "List Form" (long...

In KWB-R/kwb.utils: General Utility Functions Developed at KWB

Convert "Matrix Form" (wide format) to "List Form" (long format)

Description

Converts a data frame in "matrix form" to a data frame in "list form"

Usage

hsMatrixToListForm(
  df,
  keyFields,
  parFields = setdiff(names(df), keyFields),
  colNamePar = "parName",
  colNameVal = "parVal",
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE
)

Arguments

df	data frame
keyFields	names of key fields (e.g. date/time)
parFields	names of fields representing differen parameters. Default: column names that are not in keyFields
colNamePar	name of column in result data frame that will contain the parameter names
colNameVal	name of column in result data frame that will contain the parameter values
stringsAsFactors	if TRUE, columns of type character in the result data frame are converted to factors. Parameter is passed to cbind, rbind.

Value

data frame in "list form" (long format)

See Also

reshape

KWB-R/kwb.utils documentation built on April 1, 2024, 7:12 a.m.