将多列组合成整洁的数据

Question

我的数据集如下所示:

unique.id abx.1    start.1     stop.1 abx.2    start.2     stop.2 abx.3    start.3     stop.3 abx.4    start.4
1         1  Moxi 2014-01-01 2014-01-07  PenG 2014-01-01 2014-01-07 Vanco 2014-01-01 2014-01-07  Moxi 2014-01-01
2         2  Moxi 2014-01-01 2014-01-02 Cipro 2014-01-01 2014-01-02  PenG 2014-01-01 2014-01-02 Vanco 2014-01-01
3         3 Cipro 2014-01-01 2014-01-05 Vanco 2014-01-01 2014-01-05 Cipro 2014-01-01 2014-01-05 Vanco 2014-01-01
4         4 Vanco 2014-01-02 2014-01-03 Cipro 2014-01-02 2014-01-03 Cipro 2014-01-02 2014-01-03  PenG 2014-01-02
5         5 Vanco 2014-01-01 2014-01-02  PenG 2014-01-01 2014-01-02  PenG 2014-01-01 2014-01-02 Cipro 2014-01-01
      stop.4    intervention
1 2014-01-07       0
2 2014-01-02       0
3 2014-01-05       1
4 2014-01-03       1
5 2014-01-02       0

用一些代码创建:

 abxoptions <- c("Cipro", "Moxi", "PenG", "Vanco")
      df3 <- data.frame(
      unique.id = 1:5,
      abx.1 = sample(abxoptions,5, replace=TRUE),
      start.1 = as.Date(c('2014-01-01', '2014-01-01', '2014-01-01', '2014-01-02', '2014-01-01')),
      stop.1  = as.Date(c('2014-01-07', '2014-01-02', '2014-01-05', '2014-01-03', '2014-01-02')),
      abx.2 = sample(abxoptions,5, replace=TRUE),         
      start.2 = as.Date(c('2014-01-01', '2014-01-01', '2014-01-01', '2014-01-02', '2014-01-01')),
      stop.2  = as.Date(c('2014-01-07', '2014-01-02', '2014-01-05', '2014-01-03', '2014-01-02')),
      abx.3 = sample(abxoptions,5, replace=TRUE),         
      start.3 = as.Date(c('2014-01-01', '2014-01-01', '2014-01-01', '2014-01-02', '2014-01-01')),
      stop.3  = as.Date(c('2014-01-07', '2014-01-02', '2014-01-05', '2014-01-03', '2014-01-02')),
      abx.4 = sample(abxoptions,5, replace=TRUE),         
      start.4 = as.Date(c('2014-01-01', '2014-01-01', '2014-01-01', '2014-01-02', '2014-01-01')),
      stop.4  = as.Date(c('2014-01-07', '2014-01-02', '2014-01-05', '2014-01-03', '2014-01-02')),
      intervention = c(0,0,1,1,0)

)

我想整理这些数据看起来像这样:

unique.id    abx     start    stop           intervention
1            Moxi    2014-01-10 2014-01-07      0
1            Pen G   2014-01-01 2014-01-07      0
1            Vanco   2014-01-01 2014-01-07      0
1            Moxi    2014-01-01 2014-01-07      0  etc etc

以下解决方案无法满足我的需求: 收集多组列并将 多列组合成一列

我怀疑Hadley令人惊奇的tidyr pakcage是要走的路......只是想不出来.任何帮助将不胜感激.

Answer 1

几乎每个数据整理问题都可以通过三个步骤解决:

1. 收集所有非变量列
2. 将"colname"列分隔为多个变量
3. 重新传播数据

(通常你只需要其中的一个或两个,但我认为它们几乎总是按照这个顺序).

对于您的数据:

1. 唯一已经是变量的列是 unique.id
2. 您需要将当前列名称拆分为变量和数字
3. 然后,您需要将"变量"变量放回列中

这看起来像:

library(tidyr)
library(dplyr)

df3 %>%
  gather(col, value, -unique.id, -intervention) %>%
  separate(col, c("variable", "number")) %>%
  spread(variable, value, convert = TRUE) %>%
  mutate(start = as.Date(start, "1970-01-01"), stop = as.Date(stop, "1970-01-01"))

你的情况有点复杂,因为你有两种类型的变量,所以你需要在最后恢复类型.

Answer 2

你可以尝试reshape从base R

reshape(df3, direction='long', varying=2:ncol(df3), sep=".")

或者使用merged.stack从splitstackshape

 library(splitstackshape)
 merged.stack(df3, var.stubs=c('abx', 'start', 'stop'), sep='.')[,
    c('start', 'stop') := lapply(.SD, as.Date,
                   origin='1970-01-01'), .SDcols=4:5][]