Using dcast to widen a data frame

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I've got the following data set:

z - data.frame(item=letters[rep(24:26,2)], freq=c(4,3,2,4,4,1), id=rep(1:2,each=3), freq=c(4,3,2,4,4,1), id=rep(1:2,each=3) )

item freq id multiplied by four 1 z 2 y 3 y 3 y 3 y 3 y 3 y 3 1 x 4 2 y 4 2 z 1 2 x 4 2 y 4 2 z 1 2 x 4 2 y 4 2
Every id/item combination results in a unique data frame.

This is how I'd like it to be:

id x y z id x y z id x y
1 4 3 2 2 4 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
This appears to be a fairly straightforward transformation, but I can't manage to get it to work.

Here's what I came up with (the data frame's name is z):

dcast(z,id,item,sum) yields the following:

1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
What am I doing incorrectly?
Jun 19, 2022 in Data Science by Avinash
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1 answer to this question.

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> dcast(z, id ~ item, value.var="freq")
  id x y z
1  1 4 3 2
2  2 4 4 1

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answered Jun 24, 2022 by Sohail
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