Re: transpose a data frame

[Sundar Dorai-Raj <sundar.dorai-raj@PDF.COM>]

Joe Cerniglia wrote:
> How can I transpose a data frame?
Yes, but be careful:

> y <- data.frame(A = 1:4, B = 2:5)
> z <- t(y)
> data.class(z)
[1] "matrix"
> z
  1 2 3 4
A 1 2 3 4
B 2 3 4 5
> y <- data.frame(A = 1:4, B = 2:5, C = letters[1:4])
> z <- t(y)
> data.class(z)
[1] "matrix"
> z
    1   2   3   4
A "1" "2" "3" "4"
B "2" "3" "4" "5"
C "a" "b" "c" "d"

> Can I strip the column names from a data frame?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Joe

Depends on what you mean by "strip". names(data) will return the column 
names.
HTH,
Sundar