使用 cast 重塑多个变量答案

【问题标题】：Reshaping several variables wide with cast使用 cast 重塑多个变量
【发布时间】：2012-04-20 10:22:58
【问题描述】：

我有一个如下所示的 data.frame：

> head(ff.df)
  .id pio caremgmt prev price surveyNum
1   1   2        2    1     2         1
2   1   2        1    2     1         2
3   1   1        1    2     2         3
4   1   2        2    1     5         4
5   1   1        1    1     3         5
6   1   1        2    2     4         6

我想通过 id 来重塑所有四个非 id 变量。换句话说，我想要 colnames：

surveyNum pio1 pio2 pio3 caremgmt1 caremgmt2 caremgmt3 prev1 prev2 prev3 price1 price2 price3

我可以为单个变量做到这一点：

> cast( ff.df, surveyNum~.id, value=c("pio"))
   surveyNum 1 2 3
1          1 2 2 2
2          2 2 1 2
3          3 1 2 1
4          4 2 1 1
5          5 1 2 2
6          6 1 2 1
7          7 1 1 2
8          8 2 2 1
9          9 1 1 2
10        10 1 1 1
11        11 2 2 1
12        12 1 2 2
13        13 1 1 1
14        14 2 1 1
15        15 1 2 1
16        16 2 1 2
17        17 1 2 2
18        18 2 1 2
19        19 1 2 2
20        20 2 2 2
21        21 2 1 1
22        22 1 2 1
23        23 2 1 1
24        24 2 1 2

但是当我尝试了几次它就完全失败了：

> cast( ff.df, surveyNum~.id, value=c("pio","caremgmt","prev","price"))
Error in data.frame(data[, c(variables), drop = FALSE], result = data$value) : 
  arguments imply differing number of rows: 72, 0
In addition: Warning message:
In names(data) == value :
  longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length

有什么提示吗？我可以使用 base (stats) reshape 命令，但我真的很想摆脱它，因为它会因拉头发而导致过多的手动头皮创伤......

ff.df <- structure(list(.id = c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 
1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 3L, 3L, 
3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 
3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 
    2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L), pio = structure(c(2L, 
2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 
2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 
1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 
1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 
1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L), .Label = c("1", "2"), class = "factor"), 
    caremgmt = structure(c(2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 
    2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 
    1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 
    1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 
    1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 
    1L, 2L, 2L), .Label = c("1", "2"), class = "factor"), prev = structure(c(1L, 
    2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 
    1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 
    2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 
    2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 
    1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L), .Label = c("1", 
    "2"), class = "factor"), price = structure(c(2L, 1L, 2L, 
    5L, 3L, 4L, 1L, 5L, 4L, 3L, 1L, 2L, 6L, 6L, 5L, 4L, 6L, 3L, 
    5L, 6L, 3L, 1L, 2L, 4L, 3L, 5L, 2L, 5L, 4L, 5L, 6L, 6L, 4L, 
    6L, 4L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 5L, 1L, 6L, 1L, 3L, 4L, 3L, 
    6L, 5L, 5L, 4L, 4L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 6L, 3L, 1L, 4L, 4L, 5L, 1L, 
    3L, 6L, 1L, 3L, 5L, 1L, 3L, 6L, 2L), .Label = c("1", "2", 
    "3", "4", "5", "6"), class = "factor"), surveyNum = c(1L, 
    2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 6L, 7L, 8L, 9L, 10L, 11L, 12L, 13L, 14L, 
    15L, 16L, 17L, 18L, 19L, 20L, 21L, 22L, 23L, 24L, 1L, 2L, 
    3L, 4L, 5L, 6L, 7L, 8L, 9L, 10L, 11L, 12L, 13L, 14L, 15L, 
    16L, 17L, 18L, 19L, 20L, 21L, 22L, 23L, 24L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 
    4L, 5L, 6L, 7L, 8L, 9L, 10L, 11L, 12L, 13L, 14L, 15L, 16L, 
    17L, 18L, 19L, 20L, 21L, 22L, 23L, 24L)), .Names = c(".id", 
"pio", "caremgmt", "prev", "price", "surveyNum"), row.names = c(NA, 
-72L), class = "data.frame")

【问题讨论】：

相关问题：stackoverflow.com/questions/27247078/…

标签： r reshape

【解决方案1】：

我认为问题在于ff.df 还没有充分融化。试试这个：

library(reshape)

# Melt it down
ff.melt <- melt(ff.df, id.var = c("surveyNum", ".id"))

# Note the new "variable" column, which will be combined
# with .id to make each column header
head(ff.melt)

  surveyNum .id variable value
1         1   1      pio     2
2         2   1      pio     2
3         3   1      pio     1
4         4   1      pio     2
5         5   1      pio     1
6         6   1      pio     1

# Cast it out - note that .id comes after variable in the formula;
# I think the only effect of that is that you get "pio_1" instead of "1_pio"
ff.cast <- cast(ff.melt, surveyNum ~ variable + .id)

head(ff.cast)

  surveyNum pio_1 pio_2 pio_3 caremgmt_1 caremgmt_2 caremgmt_3 prev_1 prev_2 prev_3 price_1 price_2 price_3
1         1     2     2     2          2          1          1      1      2      2       2       6       3
2         2     2     1     2          1          2          2      2      2      1       1       5       5
3         3     1     2     1          1          2          1      2      1      2       2       5       2
4         4     2     1     1          2          2          2      1      2      2       5       4       5
5         5     1     2     2          1          2          1      1      1      1       3       4       4
6         6     1     2     1          2          1          1      2      1      1       4       2       5

这对你有用吗？

基本上，在转换时，转换公式右侧指示的变量决定了将出现在转换结果中的列。通过仅指示 .id，我相信您是在要求 cast 以某种方式将所有这些值向量塞进三列 - 1、2 和 3。将数据一路向下融合创建 variable 列，它允许您指定 .id 和 variable 向量的组合应该定义转换数据框的列。

（对不起，如果我重复/迂腐！我也在努力为自己解决问题）

【讨论】：

PS：reshape2 已经存在一段时间了，它确实比原来的要快得多。查看Hadley's announcement。您需要在上述代码中进行的唯一更改是将cast() 更改为dcast()。
这样就行了。谢谢！在我通往cast 启蒙的道路上又迈出了一步。
回复：您的评论。我想我希望它为 .id~variable，因为它会影响最终 data.frame 的排序。

【解决方案2】：

您可以使用base R 中的reshape 函数来完成此操作。列排序有点奇怪，但可以轻松修复。

 reshape(ff.df, direction = 'wide', idvar = "surveyNum", timevar = '.id')

【讨论】：

我同意，而且我肯定比cast 更熟悉reshape（虽然我一直使用melt），但我真的很鄙视reshape 语法所以我避免使用它。
是的。 reshape 非常出色，但语法却不必要地复杂。有一天我可能会为它写一个包装器。
大约一个月前，我几乎开始使用 base reshape。语法很糟糕，但它非常强大。 +1
这里的语法改进项目：stackoverflow.com/questions/10055602/…

【解决方案3】：

您可以使用 data.table 的开发版本中的 dcast 来执行此操作，即 v1.9.5

  library(data.table)
  ff.cast <- dcast(setDT(ff.df), surveyNum~.id, 
        value.var=c('pio', 'caremgmt', 'prev', 'price'))
  head(ff.cast,3)
  #  surveyNum 1_pio 2_pio 3_pio 1_caremgmt 2_caremgmt 3_caremgmt 1_prev 2_prev
  #1:         1     2     2     2          2          1          1      1      2
  #2:         2     2     1     2          1          2          2      2      2
  #3:         3     1     2     1          1          2          1      2      1
  #   3_prev 1_price 2_price 3_price
  #1:      2       2       6       3
  #2:      1       1       5       5
  #3:      2       2       5       2

【讨论】：