Reducio - Condense Wide Data into Long Format

reducio magically condenses wide-format data into a longer, more detailed format, mirroring the functionality of tidyr::pivot_longer(). This function is ideal for gathering multiple columns into key-value pairs, thereby stretching the data frame vertically and reducing its width.

Usage

reducio(data, cols, names_to = "name", values_to = "value", ...)

Arguments

data

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

cols

Columns in data that you want to condense into longer format. Can be specified using dplyr select helpers like everything(), starts_with(), ends_with(), etc.

names_to

The name of the new column in the long format that will contain the names of the condensed columns. Defaults to "name".

values_to

The name of the new column in the long format that will contain the values from the condensed columns. Defaults to "value".

...

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

Value

A longer, more detailed data frame or tibble where specified wide-format columns are condensed into two columns: one for the variable names (names_to) and one for the values (values_to).

See also

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

Examples