Please don't add images of the data, add a reproducible example using dput. Please read the info about how to ask a good question and how to give a reproducible example . – Ronak Shah I would like to use pivot_longer() from {tidyr} with names_pattern to convert my data to long format while keeping the prefix string from one of the pattern matches in the column names. This seems counter-intuitive, but I want to convert to long format before applying data dictionary cleaning steps, which requires the original column names. Set-up Steps: Make the data long. Change the positions to numbers (if you wanted to sort by position, it would give you it in alphabetical order - it's better to convert it to a factor, and best to convert it to a number! :-) Sort by the column 'name', as in the desired output. Remove the 'name' column. Remove duplicate rows. Grouped pivot_longer dplyr. 1. How to group by a column and pivot wider in R. 0. R pivot to wide and back to long (multiple groups) 1. Using pivot wider in R. 3. How to use pivot_longer properly in dplyr. I'm currently working on a simple pivot_longer function in r. poll %>% pivot_longer (poll, c (`Basketball`,`Football`), names_to="Sport", values_to="Percentage") Theses are codes to find the percentage of basketball and football. Error: Must subset columns with a valid subscript vector. Accounting for NA using Pivot_longer in R. 0. In `dplyr`, when use `pivot_wide` ,I want to replace 'NA' at the same time. 2. Pivot table from wide to long gives Solution. There are two sets of methods that are explained below: gather () and spread () from the tidyr package. This is a newer interface to the reshape2 package. melt () and dcast () from the reshape2 package. There are a number of other methods which aren’t covered here, since they are not as easy to use: The reshape () function, which is Many-a-times data collection happens in a column-by-column fashion. That means for every new data series we create a new column in our data table. E.g. John Hopkins COVID-19 dataset is built like…. .

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