How do I stack only some columns in a data frame?

Question

I have some data in a data frame in the following form:

A  B  C  V1  V2  V3
1  1  1  x   y   z
1  1  2  a   b   c
...

Where A,B,C are facto

Answer 1

And before @AnandaMahto gets here and offers his base reshape solution, here's my attempt:

dat <- read.table(text = 'A  B  C  V1  V2  V3
1  1  1  x   y   z
1  1  2  a   b   c',header= T)

expandvars <- c("V1","V2","V3")

datreshape <- reshape(dat,
                   idvar=c("A","B","C"),
                   varying=list(expandvars),
                   v.names=c("val"),
                   times=expandvars,
                   direction="long")

> datreshape
         A B C time val
1.1.1.V1 1 1 1   V1   x
1.1.2.V1 1 1 2   V1   a
1.1.1.V2 1 1 1   V2   y
1.1.2.V2 1 1 2   V2   b
1.1.1.V3 1 1 1   V3   z
1.1.2.V3 1 1 2   V3   c