mkin_wide_to_long function

Convert a dataframe with observations over time into long format

This function simply takes a dataframe with one independent variable and several dependent variable and converts it into the long form as required by mkinfit.

mkin_wide_to_long(wide_data, time = "t")

Arguments

• wide_data: The dataframe must contain one variable with the time values specified by the time argument and usually more than one column of observed values.
• time: The name of the time variable.

Returns

Dataframe in long format as needed for mkinfit.

Examples

wide <- data.frame(t = c(1,2,3), x = c(1,4,7), y = c(3,4,5))
mkin_wide_to_long(wide)

Author(s)

Johannes Ranke