Suppose I have the following pandas dataframe X in long format:

rank group ID
1    1     3
2    1     1
3    1     2
4    1     4
1    2     2
2    2     1
1    3     1
2    3     4
3    3     3
4    3     2
1    4     1
1    5     3
2    5     2
3    5     1
1    6     1

And I would like to reshape it to the following wide format according to the following rules:

1. split the ID column into 4 columns n1,n2,n3,n4 representing the 4 elements (person) in the ID column.
2. for column ni, i=1,2,3,4, the entry in the j-th row is 5 minus the ranking of i-the person in the j-th group. For example, in group 3, person 4 gets rank 2, hence the 3rd row of the n4 column is 5-2=3.
   If person i doesn't exist in group j, then the j-th entry in column ni is NA.

So basically I want to create a "score system" for person i according to the ranking: the person who is ranked 1 gets the highest score and the person who is ranked 4 gets the lowest score (or NA if that no there aren't that many people in the group).

i.e.:

group n1 n2 n3 n4
1     3  2  4  1 
2     3  4  NA NA
3     4  1  2  3
4     4  NA NA NA
5     2  3  4  NA
6     4  NA NA NA

I hope I have explained it in an understandable manner. Thank you.

CodePudding user response：

Reshape the dataframe using pivot then subtract 5 from all the values and add prefix of n to column names:

df.pivot('group', 'ID', 'rank').rsub(5).add_prefix('n')

ID      n1   n2   n3   n4
group                    
1      3.0  2.0  4.0  1.0
2      3.0  4.0  NaN  NaN
3      4.0  1.0  2.0  3.0
4      4.0  NaN  NaN  NaN
5      2.0  3.0  4.0  NaN
6      4.0  NaN  NaN  NaN