Hi All. I'm still new to R but making progress with the help
of this group. I'm struggling with what I consider to be a problem
that can be solved with pivot_wider, though i've not succeeded yet.
Thanks in advance for any assistance!
I have a dataset as below:
RaceNum Horse DrawA row_c
<int> <chr> <dbl> <int>
1 21127 A'Ali -0.242 1
2 20260 A'Ali 0.128 2
3 17889 A'Ali NA 3
4 21712 A'Shamardi -0.519 1
5 20340 A'Shamardi 0.767 2
6 5285 A Bit Of A Touch NA 1
7 4825 A Bit Of A Touch -0.0256 2
8 4207 A Bit Of A Touch 0.139 3
9 3397 A Bit Of Ginger 0.704 1
10 3206 A Bit Of Ginger 0.152 2
# ... with 64,290 more rows
My goal is to create an output that gives:
Horse DrawA_1 DrawA_2 DrawA_3
A'Ali -0.242 0.128 NA
A'Shamardi -0.519 0.767 NA
A Bit of a Touch NA -0.0256 0.139
etc
Basically for every Horse, I need to output the DrawA value for the 3
instances.
Perhaps pivot_wider is not the optimal way to do this?
I was trying to output what I needed using group_by(Horse) and then
using summarise to display the output in a dataset 4 columns wide.
Hope someone can help!