gather_variables: Gathers multiple variables.

In faouser1/FAO: Official FAO Package

Description

gather_variables gathers variables from a particularly formated dataframe. View examples for details.

Usage

gather_variables(x, start = 2, end = length(x), timeInd = 1,
  entity.position = "before")

Arguments

x	A dataframe.
start	Column index of where variables to be gathered starts
end	Column index of where variables to be gathered ends
timeInd	Column index of time variable
entity.position	Before or After. Are the entity names before or after the seperator in the variable names?

Value

A long tidy dataframe of x with entities merged into one variable.

Examples

df <- data.frame(x = 2010:2018, CAN_Bonds = runif(9), US_Bonds = runif(9),
CAN_Debt = rnorm(9, 100, 30), US_Debt = rnorm(9, 100, 30))

gather_variables(df)

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