Tidying data in R

Asked May 06 '22 at 05:34

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I'm super new to R overall and I'm working with a long dataframe with the ultimate goal of creating a density plot. The dataframe is just two variables of heights; one fheight and the other sheight for father and son respectively. I need to rearrange this data so that the varibles are in another column "relationships" with father and son and the corresponding heights (160, 175, etc...).

library(dplyr)

father_height	son_height
165.2	151.8
160.7	160.6
165.0	160.9

The ultimate goal here is to create a density plot with both of these measured. Any help would be amazing.

ETA: My expected output would be similar to below:

relationships	heights
father	165.2
son	151.8
father	160.7

edited May 06 '22 at 05:42

asked May 06 '22 at 05:34

Youdontsay

What is your expected output based on the example you shared? ALso please make reproducible examples (use `dput()`) – Sotos May 06 '22 at 05:38
I added the output expectation. I'm unfamiliar with dput(). =/ – Youdontsay May 06 '22 at 05:43
Ok so you just want to convert to long. Take a look at the answer I closed it with – Sotos May 06 '22 at 05:45
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Thanks! Gather worked. I don't know why that was so freaking confusing. appreciate the guidance. – Youdontsay May 06 '22 at 05:56

Tidying data in R

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