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Engorgio - Spread Key-Value Pairs to Widen Data

engorgio.Rd

engorgio spell expands your data frame, spreading key-value pairs across multiple columns, thus making the dataset wider. It is akin to the magical process of enlarging objects, but for data frames, using tidyr::pivot_wider(). This function is particularly useful when you want to transform long-format data into a wide-format, making it easier to analyze and visualize.

Usage

engorgio(data, names_from, values_from, ...)

Arguments

data

A data frame or tibble that you wish to transform into a wider format.

names_from

The column in data that contains the variable names which will be spread out across the new columns in the wider format.

values_from

The column in data that contains the values to fill the new columns created by spreading names_from.

...

Additional arguments passed on to tidyr::pivot_wider().

Value

A wider data frame or tibble where key-value pairs specified by names_from and values_from are spread across multiple columns, enlarging the dataset horizontally.

See also

Other data transformation functions: reducio(), transfiguro()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
library(tidyr)
# Assuming a data frame `long_data` with columns: id, category, value
engorgio(long_data, names_from = "category", values_from = "value")
}