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Pivot a longer dataframe to wide with multiple columns in R


I have a dataframe with 1000+ rows in a long format. I need to pivot into wider format using the ID as the pivoter. Pivoting it using pivot_wider only returns values in the first column, but not all of the columns.

Here is my code:

#Test data
df <- data.frame(
  ID = c(TRCC1, TRCC1, DNRC1, ILAC1),
  AJ_Vol = c(14.454166, 14.976905, 11.344002, 5.673755)
)


# Use spread to pivot the dataframe
wide_df <- pivot_wider(df, names_from = ID, values_from = AJ_Vol, values_fn =  list(AJ_Vol = list))

This what the data looks like in long. head(wide_df,100)

ID AJ_Vol
21 TRCC1 14.454166
22 TRCC1 14.976905
46 DNRC1 11.344002
86 ILAC1 5.673755

Here is what I want it to look like:

TRCC1 DNRC1 ILAC1
14.454166 11.344002 5.673755
14.976905

Solution

  • We need to create a column that distinguishes between different observations of the same ID:

    df |>
      mutate(row = row_number(), .by = ID) |>
      pivot_wider(names_from = ID, values_from = AJ_Vol)
    

    Result:

    # A tibble: 2 × 4
        row TRCC1 DNRC1 ILAC1
      <int> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
    1     1  14.5  11.3  5.67
    2     2  15.0  NA   NA 
    

    Assuming data:

    df <- data.frame(
      ID = c("TRCC1", "TRCC1", "DNRC1", "ILAC1"),
      AJ_Vol = c(14.454166, 14.976905, 11.344002, 5.673755)
    )