Hi,
I have a dataset containing 2 variables: id (unique identifier) and postal code. The table below gives an impression of the data:
id | postal code |
1 | 1111 |
2 | 1112 |
3 | 1113 |
4 | 1114 |
5 | 1115 |
I would like to create a new expanded dataset which has every possible combination of id's and their respective postal codes. So, I would like to get something like this:
fromid | toid | frompostalcode | topostalcode |
1 | 2 | 1111 | 1112 |
1 | 3 | 1111 | 1113 |
1 | 4 | 1111 | 1114 |
1 | 5 | 1111 | 1115 |
2 | 1 | 1112 | 1111 |
2 | 3 | 1112 | 1113 |
2 | 4 | 1112 | 1114 |
2 | 5 | 1112 | 1115 |
3 | 1 | 1113 | 1111 |
3 | 2 | 1113 | 1112 |
3 | 4 | 1113 | 1114 |
3 | 5 | 1113 | 1115 |
Any ideas on how to do this? I did see some related questions, but in those instances people usually asked questions about pairwise combining datasets, or pairwise combining different variables, hence I could not figure out how to solve my problem.
Thanks in advance.
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