How to reshape data from long to wide format

I’m having trouble rearranging the following data frame: set.seed(45) dat1 <- data.frame( name = rep(c(“firstName”, “secondName”), each=4), numbers = rep(1:4, 2), value = rnorm(8) ) dat1 name numbers value 1 firstName 1 0.3407997 2 firstName 2 -0.7033403 3 firstName 3 -0.3795377 4 firstName 4 -0.7460474 5 secondName 1 -0.8981073 6 secondName 2 -0.3347941 7 secondName … Read more