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January 1, 2007Journal of Statistical SoftwareOpen Access

Reshaping Data with thereshapePackage

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HWHadley Wickham

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Overview

Software report demonstrates flexible data transformation in R datasets, highlighting streamlined workflows for multidimensional restructuring.

Key Points

  • Introduce the reshape package for R, establishing a unified conceptual framework for restructuring and aggregating complex datasets.
  • Constructed a two-stage data manipulation model centered on melting datasets into measured and identifying variables and casting them into target structures.
  • Designed functional implementations to output transformed data into diverse formats, including data frames, lists, and high-dimensional arrays.
  • Standardized data reshaping operations across varied formats without requiring distinct, ad-hoc aggregation functions.
  • Enabled flexible multidimensional data summarization and structural remodeling through a single cohesive syntax.

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Hadley Wickham (2007) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d6ceee39aaaf0da5ab3739https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v021.i12
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