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02 R Data Analysis


Question

What is transpose and how does it work in R?


Answer

Transpose switches columns and rows of a matrix. It is performed using the t() function.

> test
      [,1] [,2]
 [1,]    1    1
 [2,]    2    2
 [3,]    3    3
 [4,]    4    4
 [5,]    5    5
 [6,]    6    6
 [7,]    7    7
 [8,]    8    8
 [9,]    9    9
[10,]   10   10
> t(test)
     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] [,10]
[1,]    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10
[2,]    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10



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