wide to long multiple measures each time

Question

I know the wide to long has been asked way too many times on here but I can\'t figure out how to turn the following into long format. Shoot I even asked one of the wide to

Answer 1

This is pretty close and changing the names of columns should be within your skillset:

reshape(DF, 
       varying=c(work= c(3, 7), play= c(4,8), talk= c(5,9), total= c(6,10) ), 
       direction="long")

EDIT: Adding a version that is almost an exact solution:

reshape(DF, varying=list(work= c(3, 7), play= c(4,8), talk= c(5,9), total= c(6,10) ), 
        v.names=c("Work", "Play", "Talk", "Total"), 
          # that was needed after changed 'varying' arg to a list to allow 'times' 
        direction="long",  
        times=1:2,        # substitutes number for T1 and T2
        timevar="times")  # to name the time col