From wide to long format

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Hello everyone,

I am here to ask for help. I have currently managed to gathered quite some data together for the first time in my life (for my Thesis). I am encountering issues in transforming the data from wide to long format.
As of now I have 16806 companies (rows) and 490 variables (columns). The problem is that the variables are actually 17 but are repeated for each column as I am analysing them over a long time period (17 years - 2003:2020). So, for example I have:

  • company ID - Location -Industry -ROA2003 - ROA2004 ROA2005 -ROA2006 ...and so on.
    I have been trying to research and apply all possible things to transform this data set in a long format but I have not managed to do so yet.
    I would really appreciate some help.

Thanks a lot in advance.

AS

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Heya! this link would help you :slight_smile:

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This should be quite easy using the stack command - the following example uses the built-in iris dataset:

    df1=iris
    stack(iris[1:4])

Hope this helps!

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