How to use the pivot functions in R to create long or wide data sets

This video is a tutorial on how to use the pivot longer and pivot wider functions in R to create long or wide format datasets. The functions are replacing the older melt and spread functions and are used to reshape your data.

[timmytesla]

Very clear and straight to the point. Thank you.

[haraldniederstatter]

all three thumbs up! Thanks a ton for the excellent expanation!!!

[timothywalsh]

Thanks. That was a very useful and concise tutorial

[StockSpotlightPodcast]

Thank you! Quick, efficient and well presented. Keep 'em coming - maybe you can do other data tidying common problems and fixes such as separating, uniting, etc.

[clairesun]

Amazing! looking forward to more videos like this!!

[haraldurkarlsson]

Not sure what happened but the view of the code got all blurry at the end. By the way the wide format is simply not tidy since the different locations - beach, lake and park are not variables. They are observations of location.