title: Merging Multiple Date and Values Pairs into One Date Column in r
body: <p>My data column header looks like this:</p>
  
  <p>Date1 Variable1 Date2 Variable 2 Date3 Variable 3 Date4 Variable4</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/2Yl95.gif" alt="Image of data"></p>
  
  <p>The length of each date/variable pair is different.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know how to combine all the date values so that the "Date' is in one column like this: </p>
  
  <p>Date Variable 1 Variable 2 Variable 3 Variable 4 </p>