Convert a dataframe from long to wide format

Usage

mkin_long_to_wide(long_data, time = "time", outtime = "time")

Arguments

long_data
The dataframe must contain one variable called "time" with the time values specified by the time argument, one column called "name" with the grouping of the observed values, and finally one column of observed values called "value".
time
The name of the time variable in the long input data.
outtime
The name of the time variable in the wide output data.

Description

This function takes a dataframe in the long form as required by modCost and converts it into a dataframe with one independent variable and several dependent variables as columns.

Value

Dataframe in wide format.

Examples

mkin_long_to_wide(FOCUS_2006_D)
time parent m1 1 0 99.46 0.00 2 0 102.04 0.00 3 1 93.50 4.84 4 1 92.50 5.64 5 3 63.23 12.91 6 3 68.99 12.96 7 7 52.32 22.97 8 7 55.13 24.47 9 14 27.27 41.69 10 14 26.64 33.21 11 21 11.50 44.37 12 21 11.64 46.44 13 35 2.85 41.22 14 35 2.91 37.95 15 50 0.69 41.19 16 50 0.63 40.01 17 75 0.05 40.09 18 75 0.06 33.85 19 100 NA 31.04 20 100 NA 33.13 21 120 NA 25.15 22 120 NA 33.31

Author

Johannes Ranke