dcast.data.table
data.frame
into a long format.
Internally uses melt.data.table
and dcast.data.table
.DF.to.longDT(df_wide, return_DF = TRUE)
data.frame
or data.table
in wide formatTRUE
(default) to return a data.frame
, FALSE
returns a data.table
data.frame
in long formatAll covariates that appear fewer than range(t) times are imputed with NA for missing time-points.
Observations with all NA's for all time-varying covariates are removed.
When removing NA's the time-varying covariates that are attributes (attnames) are not considered.
DF.to.long
;
doLTCF