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Re: st: Need help with transforming dataset, please
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Need help with transforming dataset, please
Date
Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:35:30 +0000
Not so. For example, the first Subject variable contains
MATH
ENGLISH
FRENCH
GEOG
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:30 AM, William Buchanan
<[email protected]> wrote:
> -help rename- is all that you need.
On Feb 25, 2013, at 16:18, Bidemi Carrol <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I would appreciate some help with transforming the dataset below.
>> Reshape does not seem to work, but I may be applying it wrong.
>>
>> The original dataset is as follows (with many more grade and subject
>> combinations):
>>
>> StudId Gender Subject1 Grade1 Subject2 Grade2 Subject3 Grade3
>> Subject4 Grade4
>> 121 F MATH 3 ENGLISH 4 GEOG 5
>> FRENCH 5
>> 122 F ENGLISH 4 GEOG 5 MATH 5
>> 123 M FRENCH 2 ENGLISH 3 MATH 1
>> GEOG 3
>> 124 M GEOG 1 MATH 2 ENGLISH 2
>>
>> I would like it to look like this:
>>
>> StudID Gender Math English French Geog
>> 121 F 3 4 5 5
>> 122 F 5 4 5
>> 123 M 1 3 2 3
>> 124 M 2 2 1
>>
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