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Pivot long format traits table into wide format

Source: R/trait_pivot_wider.R
trait_pivot_wider.Rd

Function to "widen" long format data ("tidy data").

Data in a traits.build databases' traits table are organised in a long format where each trait measurement is on a different row and measurement metadata is recorded in other columns. Multiple traits may be measured as part of a single observation and this function pivots the data wider, such that each trait is its own column. Note that if two trait measurements have the same observation_id but different value types (min, mean, mode, etc.) these will be on separate rows.

The function austraits::trait_pivot_longer reverts the actions of this function.

Usage

trait_pivot_wider(database)

Arguments

database

The traits tibble from a traits.build database

Value

traits.build traits table in wide format

Details

`trait_pivot_wider“ has been developed to pivot the traits table for a database build using the traits.build workflow. Learn more at: https://github.com/traitecoevo/traits.build & https://github.com/traitecoevo/traits.build-book

Note to AusTraits users:

  • This function works with AusTraits version >= 5.0.0 (from Nov 2023 release)

  • For AusTraits versions <= 4.2.0 (up to Sept 2023 release) see https://github.com/traitecoevo/austraits for how to install old versions of the package or download a newer version of the database.

Author

Daniel Falster - daniel.falster@unsw.edu.au

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{

data <- austraits_5.0.0_lite$traits %>% filter(dataset_id == "Falster_2003")
data #long format 
traits_wide <- trait_pivot_wider(data) 
traits_wide #wide format
} # }