R: Data Frame Special Format for Panel Data

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## Data Frame Special Format for Panel Data

### Description

This function transforms a data frame in a format suitable for using with the estimation functions of `plm`.

### Usage

    plm.data(x, indexes = NULL)

### Arguments

`x` | a `data.frame`,
`indexes` | a vector (of length one or two) indicating the (individual and time) indexes.

### Details

`indexes` can be:

- a character string which is the name of the individual index variable, in this case a new variable called “time” containing the time index is added,

- an integer, the number of individuals in the case of balanced panel, in this case two new variables “time” and “id” containing the individual and the time indexes are added,

- a vector of two character strings which contains the names of the individual and of the time indexes.

### Value

A `data.frame`.

### Author(s)

Yves Croissant

### Examples

    # There are 595 individuals
    data("Wages", package = "plm")
    Wages <- plm.data(Wages, 595)

    # Gasoline contains two variables which are individual and time indexes
    # The pdata.frame is called gas
    data("Gasoline", package = "plm")
    Gasoline <- plm.data(Gasoline, c("country","year"))
    summary(Gasoline)

    # Hedonic is an unbalanced panel, townid is the individual index
    data("Hedonic", package = "plm")
    Hedonic <- plm.data(Hedonic, "townid")

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