Transpose a data frame

You'd better not transpose the data.frame while the name column is in it - all numeric values will then be turned into strings!

Here's a solution that keeps numbers as numbers:

# first remember the names
n <- df.aree$name

# transpose all but the first column (name)
df.aree <- as.data.frame(t(df.aree[,-1]))
colnames(df.aree) <- n
df.aree$myfactor <- factor(row.names(df.aree))

str(df.aree) # Check the column types

You can use the transpose function from the data.table library. Simple and fast solution that keeps numeric values as numeric.

library(data.table)

# get data
  data("mtcars")

# transpose
  t_mtcars <- transpose(mtcars)

# get row and colnames in order
  colnames(t_mtcars) <- rownames(mtcars)
  rownames(t_mtcars) <- colnames(mtcars)