Joining Data with data.table in R
Scott Ritchie
Postdoctoral Researcher in Systems Genomics

Pomocí measure.vars určíte sloupce ke skládání:
melt(sales_wide, measure.vars = c("2015", "2016"))
quarter variable value
1: 1 2015 3200100
2: 2 2015 2950000
3: 3 2015 2980700
4: 4 2015 3420000
5: 1 2016 3350000
6: 2 2016 3000300
7: 3 2016 3120200
8: 4 2016 3670000
Pomocí variable.name a value.name přejmenujete tyto sloupce ve výsledku:
melt(sales_wide, measure.vars = c("2015", "2016"),
variable.name = "year", value.name = "amount")
quarter year amount
1: 1 2015 3200100
2: 2 2015 2950000
3: 3 2015 2980700
4: 4 2015 3420000
5: 1 2016 3350000
6: 2 2016 3000300
7: 3 2016 3120200
8: 4 2016 3670000
Pomocí id.vars určíte sloupce, které zůstanou stranou
melt(sales_wide, id.vars = "quarter",
variable.name = "year", value.name = "amount")
quarter year amount
1: 1 2015 3200100
2: 2 2015 2950000
3: 3 2015 2980700
4: 4 2015 3420000
5: 1 2016 3350000
6: 2 2016 3000300
7: 3 2016 3120200
8: 4 2016 3670000
Kombinací obou zachováte pouze podmnožinu sloupců
melt(sales_wide, id.vars = "quarter", measure.vars = "2015",
variable.name = "year", value.name = "amount")
quarter year amount
1: 1 2015 3200100
2: 2 2015 2950000
3: 3 2015 2980700
4: 4 2015 3420000
Joining Data with data.table in R