Reshape multiple value columns to wide format

Question

I have the following data frame and i want to use cast to create a \"pivot table\" with columns for two values (value and percent). Here is the data frame:

Answer 1

Your best option is to reshape your data to long format, using melt, and then to dcast:

library(reshape2)

meltExpensesByMonth <- melt(expensesByMonth, id.vars=1:2)
dcast(meltExpensesByMonth, expense_type ~ month + variable, fun.aggregate = sum)

The first few lines of output:

             expense_type 2012-02-01_value 2012-02-01_percent 2012-03-01_value 2012-03-01_percent
1              Adjustment           442.37        0.124025031             2.00       0.0005064625
2     Bank Service Charge           200.00        0.056072985           200.00       0.0506462461
3                   Cable            21.33        0.005980184            36.33       0.0091998906
4                 Charity             0.00        0.000000000             0.00       0.0000000000