Split existing column to multiple new columns

Question

I have a data frame like this:

I would like this result:

I wrote this code:

test$statetwentyeighteen = test$state[test$year=="2018"]

but I get this wrong result:

Can you please help see how to revise the code?

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update:

I am having a new issue with this matter. when the original table is updated to this:

this code no longer works

test %>% group_by(name) %>% mutate(state_twentyeighteen = state[year == 2018])

instead I get this error message:

Error: Column `state_twentyeighteen` must be length 3 (the group size) or one, not 2

Can you please see what revision should be done to the code?

Answer 1

Using dplyr , you can do

library(dplyr)
test %>% group_by(name) %>% mutate(state_twentyeighteen = state[year == 2018])

and similarly with data.table

library(data.table)
setDT(test)[, state_twentyeighteen := state[year == 2018], name]