Transpose / reshape dataframe without “timevar” from long to wide format

Here’s a shorter way, taking advantage of the way unlist deals with names:

library(dplyr)
df1 %>% group_by(Name) %>% do(as_tibble(t(unlist(.[2]))))
# # A tibble: 2 x 4
# # Groups:   Name [2]
#      Name      MedName1       MedName2         MedName3
#     <chr>         <chr>          <chr>            <chr>
#   1 name1 atenolol 25mg   aspirin 81mg sildenafil 100mg
#   2 name2 atenolol 50mg enalapril 20mg             <NA>