getLayer response to data.frame with only one feature?

[tts]

I'm trying to process the response from fmi::observations::mareograph::timevaluepair query with only one parameter (watlev).

response <- client$getLayer(layer=layers[1], parameters=list(splitListFields=TRUE))

produces a 1-feature spatialPointsDataframe, so

dat <- as.data.frame(response)

gives me a dataframe in super-wide format: one observation with all time+value pairs are variables. I find this rather difficult to clean with e.g. tidyr.

Note that this might not be an issue, rather some kind of misunderstanding from my side.

P.S. Great package BTW!

[tts]

Well, now that I had the time & patience, the response do was tidy-able with gather, extract and spread. Sorry about the false alarm.

[jlehtoma]

I had completely missed this, sorry! I remember to have been struggling with this as well, would probably make sense to do at least some tidying within the package already.