Turn an observation data.frame into a long data.table

to_long_form(dt, unit, observers, measurements)

Arguments

dt

`data.table` containing the reliability data in wide format

unit

name of the column containing the unit id

observers

list of names of the columns containing the oberverments, one per observer

measurements

name of the new column containing the measurements

Value

A long-form melted data.table with the same unit column and two new columns "observer" and measurements and as many rows as units.