elongate: Elongates a pseudo-wide column

In xrobin/xavamess: Useful Miscellaneous Functions

Description

Takes a pseudo-wide column and tranform it into a long format

Usage

elongate(id, wide, pattern = ";", stringsAsFactors = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

id	a column that will not be splitted
wide	the column to split
pattern	the character or regex used to split up the wide column (see str_split)
stringsAsFactors	should always be FALSE
...	additional parameters for data.frame

Examples

data(pseudo.wide)
elongated.score <- elongate(pseudo.wide$Protein, pseudo.wide$Score)
elongated.sequence <- elongate(pseudo.wide$Protein, pseudo.wide$Sequence)
# The following works only if the Score and Sequence have the same pattern
# (ie same number of splits per ID)
elongated <- data.frame(Protein = elongated.score$id,
                        Score = elongated.score$wide,
                        Sequence = elongated.sequence$wide)

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