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Automatic index column generation for dcast? #1205

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http://stackoverflow.com/a/31194461/559784

 setDT(df1)[, ind:= 1:.N, .(zip, acs.pop, napps, pperct)]
 dcast(df1, zip+acs.pop + napps+pperct~ind, value.var=c('zgrp', 'perc'))

This kind of operation is required quite frequently before dcast (AFAICT from Q on SO).

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