melt
Convert an object into a molten data frame.
This the generic melt function. See the following functions for the details about different data structures:
- Keywords
- manip
Usage
melt(data, ..., na.rm = FALSE, value.name = "value")Arguments
- data
Data set to melt
- ...
further arguments passed to or from other methods.
- na.rm
Should NA values be removed from the data set? This will convert explicit missings to implicit missings.
- value.name
name of variable used to store values
Details
melt.data.framefor data.framesmelt.arrayfor arrays, matrices and tablesmelt.listfor lists
See Also
Community examples
library(reshape2) # example data frame x = data.frame( id = c(1, 1, 2, 2), blue = c(1, 0, 1, 0), red = c(0, 1, 0, 1) ) # collapse the data frame melt(data = x, id.vars = "id", measure.vars = c("blue", "red"))
library(reshape2) # example data frame x = data.frame( id = c(1, 1, 2, 2), blue = c(1, 0, 1, 0), red = c(0, 1, 0, 1) ) # collapse the data frame melt(data = x, id.vars = "id", measure.vars = c("blue", "red"))
##### Melt Example ```r library(reshape2) # example data frame x = data.frame( id = c(1, 1, 2, 2), blue = c(1, 0, 1, 0), red = c(0, 1, 0, 1) ) # collapse the data frame melt(data = x, id.vars = "id", measure.vars = c("blue", "red")) ```