'How to convert multiple rows with same ID to single rows

I have a dataset1 which is as follows (table 1) :

structure(list(TCODE = c("T1", "T1", "T1", "T2", "T2", "T2", 
"T2", "T2", "T3", "T4", "T4", "T4", "T4"), MATERIAL = c("M105", 
"M100", "M102", "M345", "M400", "M100", "M220", "M260", "M400", 
"M390", "M400", "M100", "M700")), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, 
-13L))

   TCODE MATERIAL
1     T1     M105
2     T1     M100
3     T1     M102
4     T2     M345
5     T2     M400
6     T2     M100
7     T2     M220
8     T2     M260
9     T3     M400
10    T4     M390
11    T4     M400
12    T4     M100
13    T4     M700

How to convert multiple rows into a single row based on first column? The desired output is : table 2

1 2 3 4 5

1 M105, M100, M102

2 M345, M400, M100, M220, M260

3 M400

4 M390, M400, M100, M700

Thanks.

Solution 1:^[1]

Using toString in aggregate.

aggregate(. ~ TCODE, dat, toString)
#   TCODE                     MATERIAL
# 1    T1             M105, M100, M102
# 2    T2 M345, M400, M100, M220, M260
# 3    T3                         M400
# 4    T4       M390, M400, M100, M700

Data:

dat <- structure(list(TCODE = c("T1", "T1", "T1", "T2", "T2", "T2", 
"T2", "T2", "T3", "T4", "T4", "T4", "T4"), MATERIAL = c("M105", 
"M100", "M102", "M345", "M400", "M100", "M220", "M260", "M400", 
"M390", "M400", "M100", "M700")), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, 
-13L))

Solution 2:^[2]

You can do:

df <- structure(list(TCODE = c("T1", "T1", "T1", "T2", "T2", "T2", 
"T2", "T2", "T3", "T4", "T4", "T4", "T4"), MATERIAL = c("M105", 
"M100", "M102", "M345", "M400", "M100", "M220", "M260", "M400", 
"M390", "M400", "M100", "M700")), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, 
-13L))

library(tidyverse)
df %>%
  group_by(TCODE) %>%
  summarize(MATERIAL= paste0(MATERIAL, collapse = ', '))

# A tibble: 4 x 2
  TCODE MATERIAL                    
  <chr> <chr>                       
1 T1    M105, M100, M102            
2 T2    M345, M400, M100, M220, M260
3 T3    M400                        
4 T4    M390, M400, M100, M700

If you want to have 5 columns, pivot_wider:

df %>%
  group_by(TCODE) %>%
  mutate(id = 1:n()) %>%
  ungroup() %>%
  pivot_wider(values_from = MATERIAL,
              names_from  = id,
              names_prefix = 'id_')

# A tibble: 4 x 6
  TCODE id_1  id_2  id_3  id_4  id_5 
  <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
1 T1    M105  M100  M102  <NA>  <NA> 
2 T2    M345  M400  M100  M220  M260 
3 T3    M400  <NA>  <NA>  <NA>  <NA> 
4 T4    M390  M400  M100  M700  <NA>

Solution 3:^[3]

We could do it this way:

library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)

df %>% 
  group_by(TCODE) %>% 
  mutate(MATERIAL = toString(MATERIAL)) %>% 
  slice(1) %>% 
  mutate(MATERIAL = str_split(MATERIAL, ', ')) %>% 
  unnest_wider(MATERIAL)

  TCODE ...1  ...2  ...3  ...4  ...5 
  <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
1 T1    M105  M100  M102  NA    NA   
2 T2    M345  M400  M100  M220  M260 
3 T3    M400  NA    NA    NA    NA   
4 T4    M390  M400  M100  M700  NA

Solution 4:^[4]

Using data.table

library(data.table)
dcast(setDT(df), TCODE ~ paste0("id_", rowid(TCODE)), value.var = 'MATERIAL')

-output

   TCODE   id_1   id_2   id_3   id_4   id_5
   <char> <char> <char> <char> <char> <char>
1:     T1   M105   M100   M102   <NA>   <NA>
2:     T2   M345   M400   M100   M220   M260
3:     T3   M400   <NA>   <NA>   <NA>   <NA>
4:     T4   M390   M400   M100   M700   <NA>

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