Long to wide — long_to_wide • sysrevdata

Convert from long format to wide format, with each level of a given column separated into a different column.

long_to_wide(data, columns, name_sep = "_", value_sep = ";")

Arguments

data	A dataframe containing rows of systematic review data in long format.
columns	A set of columns containing coded data from within a dataframe.
name_sep	A character used to separate terms in the newly generated column names within the data. The default is set to '_' (i.e. snake_case).
value_sep	A character used to separate values within the data. The default is set to ';'.

A dataframe in 'wide' format.

if (FALSE) {
wide_data2 <- long_to_wide(long_data, columns, value_sep = 'xxx')
}