[R] Rearranging dataset

[Peter Dalgaard]

Dieter Menne wrote:
> Megh Dal <megh700004 <at> yahoo.com> writes:
>
>   
>> Hi all, I have a datasei like this :
>>
>>   ID      Date             Price
>>   aa     01/01/07       12
>>   aa    01/02/07         13
>>   bb     01/01/07        23
>>   bb    01/02/07        12
>>
>>    
>>   Now I want to write them in following format :
>>
>>   ID      Date             Price   ID      Date             Price
>>   aa     01/01/07       12        bb     01/01/07        23
>>   aa    01/02/07         13       bb    01/02/07        12   
>>
>>   Is there any way to do this by some automated way?
>>     
>
> The closest guess is to use reshape(... direction= "wide"). Be warned, reshape
> is powerful and has a somewhat complex syntax. The alternative is to use the
> package reshape by Hadley Wickham. 
>
>   
I understand this as a printing problem, not an issue of actually 
modifying the dataframe. If so, you might print each of the two halves 
to a  character vector by sink()'ing to a text connection, then use 
paste() and cat() for the printing.

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