title: converting rows to columns of a data frame in R
body: <p>I have a data set like this</p>
  
  <pre><code>movieID    title   year   country    genre  directorName    Rating     actorName1     actorName.2
  1          hello    1995    USA      action    john smith       6        tom hanks      charlie sheen
  2          MI2      1997    USA      action    mad max          8        tom cruize     some_body
  3          MI2      1997    USA      thriller  mad max          8        tom cruize     some_body
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>basically there are numerous rows that just have a different user given genre that I would like to columns having genre1, genre2, ... </p>
  
  <p>I tried reshape() but it would only convert based on some ID variable. If anyone has any ideas let me know</p>