How to use Pivot_longer to reshape from wide-type data to long-type data with multiple variables
I would like to ask how to reshape the following dataframe from wide-type to long-type. The wide-type data is as follows.
Wide-type data before reshaping:
The long type data, i.e. the dataframe that I would like to get, is as follows.
Long-type data after reshaping:
Hugely appreciate if you could give me tips to do this using pivot-longer. I could reshape the data separately by BLS and ELS by writing:
df_long_BLS <- df %>%
pivot_longer(
cols = starts_with("BLS_tchrG"),
names_to = "grade",
names_prefix = "BLS_tchrG",
values_to = "BLS_tchrG"
)
df_long_ELS <- df %>%
pivot_longer(
cols = starts_with("ELS_tchrG"),
names_to = "grade",
names_prefix = "ELS_tchrG",
values_to = "ELS_tchrG"
)
But in this way I need to merge the 2 separate files. I would like to know how to do this data reshape without making 2 separate files.
You can try :
tidyr::pivot_longer(df, cols = -ID_IE,
names_to = c('.value', 'grade'),
names_pattern = '(.*)(\\d+)')
# A tibble: 8 x 4
# ID_IE grade BLS_tchrG ELS_tchrG
# <dbl> <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
#1 2135 2 1 1
#2 2135 7 1 1
#3 2101 2 0 0
#4 2101 7 2 0
#5 2103 2 0 0
#6 2103 7 3 0
#7 2111 2 1 1
#8 2111 7 4 1
data
Tried on this data :
df <- data.frame(ID_IE = c(2135, 2101, 2103, 2111), BLS_tchrG2 = c(1, 0, 0, 1),
BLS_tchrG7 = 1:4,
ELS_tchrG2 = c(1, 0, 0, 1), ELS_tchrG7 = c(1, 0, 0, 1))