soundcorrs (version 0.2.0)

wide2long: Convert from the wide format (multiple entries per row) to the long format (single entry per row).

Description

Takes a data frame of word pairs/triples/..., each stored in a single row, and returns a data frame with the same pairs/triples/... but with each word stored in its own row.

Usage

wide2long(data, suffixes, col.lang = "LANGUAGE", strip = 0)

Arguments

data

[data.frame] The dataset to be converted.

suffixes

[character vector] Suffixes used to differentiate column names; in the output, those will be used as language names.

col.lang

[character] Name of the column in which language names are to be stored. Defaults to "LANGUAGE".

strip

[integer] The number of characters to strip from the beginning of suffixes when they are turned into language names. Defaults to 0.

Value

[data.frame] A data frame in the long format (single entry per row).

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# path to sample data in the "wide format"
fName <- system.file ("extdata", "data-capitals.tsv", package="soundcorrs")
wide <- read.table (fName, header=TRUE)
long <- wide2long (wide, c(".German",".Polish",".Spanish"), strip=1)
# }