wide.to.long: Convert Between Wide and Long Format
Description
Convert a multivariate time series between wide and long formats. In
"wide" format there is one row per time point, with series organzied
by columns. In "long" format there is one row per observation, with
variables indicating the series and time point to which an observation
belongs.
For WideToLong this is a matrix, with rows
representing time and columns representing variables. This can be a
zoo matrix with timestamps as an index.
For LongToWide, response is a vector.
na.rm
If TRUE then missing values will be omitted from the
returned data frame (their absence denoting missingness).
Otherwise, missing values will be included as NA's.
series.id
A factor (or variable coercible to factor) of the
same length as response, indicating the series to which each
observation belongs.
timestamps
A variable of the same length as response,
indicating the time period to which each observation belongs.
Value
LongToWide returns a zoo matrix with the time series in wide format.
WideToLong returns a 3-column data frame with columns "time", "series", and "values".