I have the following variables in a data frame:

[1] "Type"   "I.alt"  "idx06"  "idx07"  "idx08" "farve1" "farve2"

If I do:

dm <- melt(d, id=c("Type","I.alt"))

I get these variables:

"Type"     "I.alt"    "variable" "value"   

Where "idx06", "idx07", "idx08", "farve1", "farve2" are represented in "variable".

But what I really want is something like this:

"Type"     "I.alt"    "variable" "value" "variable2" "value2"

Where "farve1" and "farve2" are represented in variable2 and value2.

The reason I want to do this, is that I'd like something where the line color is green if the value is falling and red if rising. EDIT: Shane has shown how to reshape the data via two melts merged. But my strategy seams to be ill conceived from the beginning - WRONG in one word. See my comment to Shane's solution.

ggplot(dm, aes(x=variable,y=value,group=Type,col=variable2, label=Type,size=I.alt))+
geom_line()+
geom_text(data=subset(dm, variable=="idx08"),hjust=-0.2, size=2.5)+
theme_bw()+
scale_x_discrete(expand=c(0,1))+
opts(legend.position="none")

I assume I need to cast the molten frame - but I can't figure it out. The data:

d <- structure(list(Type = structure(c(8L, 21L, 23L, 20L, 6L, 14L, 
3L, 24L, 2L, 28L, 32L, 22L, 15L, 29L, 1L, 17L, 18L, 33L, 25L, 
13L, 30L, 11L, 26L, 9L, 12L, 4L, 5L, 27L, 16L, 19L, 10L, 31L, 
7L), .Label = c("Alvorligere vold", "Andre strafferetlige særlove", 
"Andre tyverier", "Bedrageri", "Brandstiftelse", "Butikstyverier m.v.", 
"Dokumentfalsk", "Færdselslovovertræd. i øvrigt", "Færdselsuheld med spiritus", 
"Falsk forklaring i øvrigt", "Forbr. mod off. myndighed m.v.", 
"Freds- og ærekrænkelser", "Hæleri", "Hærværk", "Indbrud i bank, forretn. m.v.", 
"Indbrud i fritidshuse, garager mv", "Indbrud i villaer, lejligheder mv", 
"Love vedr
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