This function takes a dataframe in the long form, i.e. with a row for each observed value, and converts it into a dataframe with one independent variable and several dependent variables as columns.
Arguments
- long_data
 The dataframe must contain one variable called "time" with the time values specified by the
timeargument, 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.
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