Spread with data.frame/tibble with duplicate identifiers

Hadley's intervention was unsurprisingly perfect... but I ended up mucking with the syntax a bit after that... so for what it's worth, I post the fully operational code (sorry my syntax is a bit different than above):

library(tidyr)
library(dplyr)

wide <- 
  iris %>%
  mutate(row = row_number()) %>%
  gather(vars, val, -Species, -row) %>%
  spread(vars, val)

head(wide)
#   Species row Petal.Length Petal.Width Sepal.Length Sepal.Width
# 1  setosa   1          1.4         0.2          5.1         3.5
# 2  setosa   2          1.4         0.2          4.9         3.0
# 3  setosa   3          1.3         0.2          4.7         3.2
# 4  setosa   4          1.5         0.2          4.6         3.1
# 5  setosa   5          1.4         0.2          5.0         3.6
# 6  setosa   6          1.7         0.4          5.4         3.9

head(iris)
# Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
# 1          5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2  setosa
# 2          4.9         3.0          1.4         0.2  setosa
# 3          4.7         3.2          1.3         0.2  setosa
# 4          4.6         3.1          1.5         0.2  setosa
# 5          5.0         3.6          1.4         0.2  setosa
# 6          5.4         3.9          1.7         0.4  setosa

They are the same.... just need to reorder if u feel like it...

wide <- wide[,c(3, 4, 5, 6, 1)]  ## Reorder and then remove "row" column

and done.