R split each row of a dataframe into two rows - r

Question

I would like to splite each row of a data frame(numberic) into two rows. For example, part of the original data frame like this (nrow(original datafram) > 2800000):
ID X Y Z value_1 value_2
1 3 2 6 22 54
6 11 5 9 52 71
3 7 2 5 2 34
5 10 7 1 23 47
And after spliting each row, we can get:
ID X Y Z
1 3 2 6
22 54 NA NA
6 11 5 9
52 71 NA NA
3 7 2 5
2 34 NA NA
5 10 7 1
23 47 NA NA
the "value_1" and "value_2" columns are split and each element is set to a new row. For example, value_1 = 22 and value_2 = 54 are set to a new row.

Answer 1

Here is one option with data.table. We convert the 'data.frame' to 'data.table' by creating a column of rownames (setDT(df1, keep.rownames = TRUE)). Subset the columns 1:5 and 1, 6, 7 in a list, rbind the list element with fill = TRUE option to return NA for corresponding columns that are not found in one of the datasets, order by the row number ('rn') and assign (:=) the row number column to 'NULL'.
library(data.table)
setDT(df1, keep.rownames = TRUE)[]
rbindlist(list(df1[, 1:5, with = FALSE], setnames(df1[, c(1, 6:7),
with = FALSE], 2:3, c("ID", "X"))), fill = TRUE)[order(rn)][, rn:= NULL][]
# ID X Y Z
#1: 1 3 2 6
#2: 22 54 NA NA
#3: 6 11 5 9
#4: 52 71 NA NA
#5: 3 7 2 5
#6: 2 34 NA NA
#7: 5 10 7 1
#8: 23 47 NA NA
A hadleyverse corresponding to the above logic would be
library(dplyr)
tibble::rownames_to_column(df1[1:4]) %>%
bind_rows(., setNames(tibble::rownames_to_column(df1[5:6]),
c("rowname", "ID", "X"))) %>%
arrange(rowname) %>%
select(-rowname)
# ID X Y Z
#1 1 3 2 6
#2 22 54 NA NA
#3 6 11 5 9
#4 52 71 NA NA
#5 3 7 2 5
#6 2 34 NA NA
#7 5 10 7 1
#8 23 47 NA NA
data
df1 <- structure(list(ID = c(1L, 6L, 3L, 5L), X = c(3L, 11L, 7L, 10L
), Y = c(2L, 5L, 2L, 7L), Z = c(6L, 9L, 5L, 1L), value_1 = c(22L,
52L, 2L, 23L), value_2 = c(54L, 71L, 34L, 47L)), .Names = c("ID",
"X", "Y", "Z", "value_1", "value_2"), class = "data.frame",
row.names = c(NA, -4L))

Answer 2

Here's a (very slow) pure R solution using no extra packages:
# Replicate your matrix
input_df <- data.frame(ID = rnorm(10000),
X = rnorm(10000),
Y = rnorm(10000),
Z = rnorm(10000),
value_1 = rnorm(10000),
value_2 = rnorm(10000))
# Preallocate memory to a data frame
output_df <- data.frame(
matrix(
nrow = nrow(input_df)*2,
ncol = ncol(input_df)-2))
# Loop through each row in turn.
# Put the first four elements into the current
# row, and the next two into the current+1 row
# with two NAs attached.
for(i in seq(1, nrow(output_df), 2)){
output_df[i,] <- input_df[i, c(1:4)]
output_df[i+1,] <- c(input_df[i, c(5:6)],NA,NA)
}
colnames(output_df) <- c("ID", "X", "Y", "Z")
Which results in
> head(output_df)
X1 X2 X3 X4
1 0.5529417 -0.93859275 2.0900276 -2.4023800
2 0.9751090 0.13357075 NA NA
3 0.6753835 0.07018647 0.8529300 -0.9844643
4 1.6405939 0.96133195 NA NA
5 0.3378821 -0.44612782 -0.8176745 0.2759752
6 -0.8910678 -0.37928353 NA NA

Answer 3

This should work
data <- read.table(text= "ID X Y Z value_1 value_2
1 3 2 6 22 54
6 11 5 9 52 71
3 7 2 5 2 34
5 10 7 1 23 47", header=T)
data1 <- data[,1:4]
data2 <- setdiff(data,data1)
names(data2) <- names(data1)[1:ncol(data2)]
combined <- plyr::rbind.fill(data1,data2)
n <- nrow(data1)
combined[kronecker(1:n, c(0, n), "+"),]
Though why you would need to do this beats me.