Good riddance to Excel pivot tables
Tags: plyr , reshape2 , R
Excel pivot tables have been how I have reorganized data…up until now. These are just a couple of examples why R is superior to Excel for reorganizing data:
UPDATE: I fixed the code to use ‘dcast’ instead of ‘cast’. And library(ggplot2) instead of library(plyr) [plyr is called along with ggplot2]. Thanks Bob!
Also, see another post on this topic here.