Duplicates elements of a data frame

Duplicates rows and columns of a given a data frame.

duplicateRow(x, id.el = 1, times = 1, append = FALSE)

duplicateCol(x, id.el = 1, times = 1, append = FALSE)

Arguments

x	a data frame.
id.el	identity of the elements to be duplicated.
times	number of times elements are duplicated. Could be a vector of the same length as id.el.
append	A logical. If TRUE, duplicated elements will be appended to the data frame otherwise duplicated elements remain next to their parent. Non-existing columns cannot be duplicated while non-existing rows can and produce NA.

Value

returns a data frame with duplicated rows.

Functions

• duplicateCol: returns a data frame with duplicated columns.

Examples

data(iris, package='datasets')
iris2 <- duplicateRow(iris, id.el=1:50, times=2)
iris3 <- duplicateCol(iris, id.el=c('Petal.Length', 'Petal.Width'), times=c(1,2), append=TRUE)