From long to wide data with multiple columns

Question

Suggestions for how to smoothly get from foo to foo2 (preferably with tidyr or reshape2 packages)?

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Answer 1

Here's another alternative using tidyr:

library(tidyr)
foo %>%
  gather(key, value, -group, -times, -num_users) %>%
  unite(col, key, times) %>%
  spread(col, value)

Which gives:

#  group num_users action_rate_after action_rate_before action_rate_c95_after
#1     a       100              0.15                0.1            0.06962893
#2     b       200              0.18                0.2            0.05297400
#3     c       300              0.35                0.3            0.05369881
#  action_rate_c95_before
#1             0.05850000
#2             0.05515433
#3             0.05159215