使用你的例子数据框架，我们可以:

xtabs(value ~ name + numbers, data = dat1)

Win-Vector公司的天才数据科学家(他们制作了vtreat、seplyr和replyr)推出了一个非常强大的新软件包，名为cdata。它实现了本文和本文中描述的“协调数据”原则。其思想是，无论如何组织数据，都应该能够使用“数据坐标”系统识别单个数据点。下面是约翰·芒特最近博客文章的节选:

The whole system is based on two primitives or operators cdata::moveValuesToRowsD() and cdata::moveValuesToColumnsD(). These operators have pivot, un-pivot, one-hot encode, transpose, moving multiple rows and columns, and many other transforms as simple special cases. It is easy to write many different operations in terms of the cdata primitives. These operators can work-in memory or at big data scale (with databases and Apache Spark; for big data use the cdata::moveValuesToRowsN() and cdata::moveValuesToColumnsN() variants). The transforms are controlled by a control table that itself is a diagram of (or picture of) the transform.

我们将首先构建控制表(有关详细信息，请参阅博客文章)，然后执行数据从行到列的移动。

library(cdata)
# first build the control table
pivotControlTable <- buildPivotControlTableD(table = dat1, # reference to dataset
                        columnToTakeKeysFrom = 'numbers', # this will become column headers
                        columnToTakeValuesFrom = 'value', # this contains data
                        sep="_")                          # optional for making column names

# perform the move of data to columns
dat_wide <- moveValuesToColumnsD(tallTable =  dat1, # reference to dataset
                    keyColumns = c('name'),         # this(these) column(s) should stay untouched 
                    controlTable = pivotControlTable# control table above
                    ) 
dat_wide

#>         name  numbers_1  numbers_2  numbers_3  numbers_4
#> 1  firstName  0.3407997 -0.7033403 -0.3795377 -0.7460474
#> 2 secondName -0.8981073 -0.3347941 -0.5013782 -0.1745357

即使你有丢失的对，它也能工作，而且它不需要排序(as.matrix(dat1)[，1:2]可以用cbind(dat1[，1]，dat1[，2])替换):

> set.seed(45);dat1=data.frame(name=rep(c("firstName","secondName"),each=4),numbers=rep(1:4,2),value=rnorm(8))
> u1=unique(dat1[,1]);u2=unique(dat1[,2])
> m=matrix(nrow=length(u1),ncol=length(u2),dimnames=list(u1,u2))
> m[as.matrix(dat1)[,1:2]]=dat1[,3]
> m
                    1          2          3          4
firstName   0.3407997 -0.7033403 -0.3795377 -0.7460474
secondName -0.8981073 -0.3347941 -0.5013782 -0.1745357

如果你有缺少的对并且需要排序，这是行不通的，但如果对已经排序了，它会更短一些:

> u1=unique(dat1[,1]);u2=unique(dat1[,2])
> dat1=dat1[order(dat1[,1],dat1[,2]),] # not actually needed in this case
> matrix(dat1[,3],length(u1),,T,list(u1,u2))
                    1          2          3          4
firstName   0.3407997 -0.7033403 -0.3795377 -0.7460474
secondName -0.8981073 -0.3347941 -0.5013782 -0.1745357

下面是第一个方法的函数版本(添加as.data.frame使其与tibbles一起工作):

l2w=function(x,row=1,col=2,val=3,sort=F){
  u1=unique(x[,row])
  u2=unique(x[,col])
  if(sort){u1=sort(u1);u2=sort(u2)}
  out=matrix(nrow=length(u1),ncol=length(u2),dimnames=list(u1,u2))
  out[cbind(x[,row],x[,col])]=x[,val]
  out
}

或者如果你只有下三角形的值，你可以这样做:

> euro=as.matrix(eurodist)[1:3,1:3]
> lower=data.frame(V1=rownames(euro)[row(euro)[lower.tri(euro)]],V2=colnames(euro)[col(euro)[lower.tri(euro)]],V3=euro[lower.tri(euro)])
> lower
         V1        V2   V3
1 Barcelona    Athens 3313
2  Brussels    Athens 2963
3  Brussels Barcelona 1318
> n=unique(c(lower[,1],lower[,2]))
> full=rbind(lower,setNames(lower[,c(2,1,3)],names(lower)),data.frame(V1=n,V2=n,V3=0))
> full
         V1        V2   V3
1 Barcelona    Athens 3313
2  Brussels    Athens 2963
3  Brussels Barcelona 1318
4    Athens Barcelona 3313
5    Athens  Brussels 2963
6 Barcelona  Brussels 1318
7    Athens    Athens    0
8 Barcelona Barcelona    0
9  Brussels  Brussels    0
> l2w(full,sort=T)
          Athens Barcelona Brussels
Athens         0      3313     2963
Barcelona   3313         0     1318
Brussels    2963      1318        0

或者还有另一种方法:

> rc=as.matrix(lower[-3])
> n=sort(unique(c(rc)))
> m=matrix(0,length(n),length(n),,list(n,n))
> m[rc]=lower[,3]
> m[rc[,2:1]]=lower[,3]
> m
          Athens Barcelona Brussels
Athens         0      3313     2963
Barcelona   3313         0     1318
Brussels    2963      1318        0

base R中的另一个简单方法是使用xtabs。xtabs的结果基本上只是一个带有花哨类名的矩阵，但你可以让它看起来像一个普通的矩阵，class(x)=NULL;attr(x，"call")=NULL;dimnames(x)=unname(dimnames(x)):

> x=xtabs(value~name+numbers,dat1);x
            numbers
name                  1          2          3          4
  firstName   0.3407997 -0.7033403 -0.3795377 -0.7460474
  secondName -0.8981073 -0.3347941 -0.5013782 -0.1745357
> str(x)
 'xtabs' num [1:2, 1:4] 0.341 -0.898 -0.703 -0.335 -0.38 ...
 - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
  ..$ name   : chr [1:2] "firstName" "secondName"
  ..$ numbers: chr [1:4] "1" "2" "3" "4"
 - attr(*, "call")= language xtabs(formula = value ~ name + numbers, data = dat1)
> class(x)
[1] "xtabs" "table"
> class(as.matrix(x)) # `as.matrix` has no effect because `x` is already a matrix
[1] "xtabs" "table"
> class(x)=NULL;class(x)
[1] "matrix" "array"
> attr(x,"call")=NULL;dimnames(x)=unname(dimnames(x))
> x # now it looks like a regular matrix
                    1          2          3          4
firstName   0.3407997 -0.7033403 -0.3795377 -0.7460474
secondName -0.8981073 -0.3347941 -0.5013782 -0.1745357
> str(x)
 num [1:2, 1:4] 0.341 -0.898 -0.703 -0.335 -0.38 ...
 - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
  ..$ : chr [1:2] "firstName" "secondName"
  ..$ : chr [1:4] "1" "2" "3" "4"

通常as.data.frame(x)将xtab的结果转换回长格式，但你可以使用class(x)=NULL来避免这种情况:

> x=xtabs(value~name+numbers,dat1);as.data.frame(x)
        name numbers       Freq
1  firstName       1  0.3407997
2 secondName       1 -0.8981073
3  firstName       2 -0.7033403
4 secondName       2 -0.3347941
5  firstName       3 -0.3795377
6 secondName       3 -0.5013782
7  firstName       4 -0.7460474
8 secondName       4 -0.1745357
> class(x)=NULL;as.data.frame(x)
                    1          2          3          4
firstName   0.3407997 -0.7033403 -0.3795377 -0.7460474
secondName -0.8981073 -0.3347941 -0.5013782 -0.1745357

这将宽格式的数据转换为长格式(unlist将数据帧转换为向量，c将矩阵转换为向量):

w2l=function(x)data.frame(V1=rownames(x)[row(x)],V2=colnames(x)[col(x)],V3=unname(c(unlist(x))))

使用基R聚合函数:

aggregate(value ~ name, dat1, I)

# name           value.1  value.2  value.3  value.4
#1 firstName      0.4145  -0.4747   0.0659   -0.5024
#2 secondName    -0.8259   0.1669  -0.8962    0.1681

简单多了!

devtools::install_github("yikeshu0611/onetree") #install onetree package

library(onetree)
widedata=reshape_toWide(data = dat1,id = "name",j = "numbers",value.var.prefix = "value")
widedata

        name     value1     value2     value3     value4
   firstName  0.3407997 -0.7033403 -0.3795377 -0.7460474
  secondName -0.8981073 -0.3347941 -0.5013782 -0.1745357

如果你想从宽返回到长，只改变宽为长，不改变对象。

reshape_toLong(data = widedata,id = "name",j = "numbers",value.var.prefix = "value")

        name numbers      value
   firstName       1  0.3407997
  secondName       1 -0.8981073
   firstName       2 -0.7033403
  secondName       2 -0.3347941
   firstName       3 -0.3795377
  secondName       3 -0.5013782
   firstName       4 -0.7460474
  secondName       4 -0.1745357

对于tidyr，有pivot_wider()和pivot_longer()，它们分别被广义为从long -> wide或wide -> long进行重塑。使用OP的数据:

单列长>宽

library(tidyr)

dat1 %>% 
    pivot_wider(names_from = numbers, values_from = value)

# # A tibble: 2 x 5
#   name          `1`    `2`    `3`    `4`
#   <fct>       <dbl>  <dbl>  <dbl>  <dbl>
# 1 firstName   0.341 -0.703 -0.380 -0.746
# 2 secondName -0.898 -0.335 -0.501 -0.175

多列长>宽

Pivot_wider()还能够执行更复杂的枢轴操作。例如，你可以同时对多个列进行主元操作:

# create another column for showing the functionality
dat2 <- dat1 %>% 
    dplyr::rename(valA = value) %>%
    dplyr::mutate(valB = valA * 2) 

dat2 %>% 
    pivot_wider(names_from = numbers, values_from = c(valA, valB))

# # A tibble: 2 × 9
#   name       valA_1 valA_2 valA_3 valA_4 valB_1 valB_2 valB_3 valB_4
#   <chr>       <dbl>  <dbl>  <dbl>  <dbl>  <dbl>  <dbl>  <dbl>  <dbl>
#  1 firstName   0.341 -0.703 -0.380 -0.746  0.682 -1.41  -0.759 -1.49 
#  2 secondName -0.898 -0.335 -0.501 -0.175 -1.80  -0.670 -1.00  -0.349

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