RStudio snippets for pivot_longer and pivot_wider

rstudio-snippet.R

pivot_longer(mydf,
             cols = columns to pivot long,
             names_to = "desired name for category column",
             values_to = "desired name for value column"
)

pivot_wider(mydf,
             # id_cols = optional vector of unaffected columns,
             names_from = c(category column(s) to pivot wide),
             values_from = c(value column(s) that hold data for each category column),
             names_sep = "_"         
)


# source: unknown..might have been me, might have been copied from somewhere else