Try this:

  xtabs(value ~ row + column, d)[]


On 10/5/07, Chris Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm building a matrix m from a data frame d which includes the matrix row,
> column and value.
>
> This works well enough:
>
> m <- tapply(d[,"value"],d[,c("row","column")],c)
>
> However, I'd like to replace any missing values with 0, not NA.  The
> obvious doesn't work, however:
>
> m <- tapply(d[,"value"],d[,c("row","column")],function(x) 
> {ifelse(is.na(x),0.0,x)})
>
> I can always do this:
>
> m <- tapply(d[,"value"],d[,c("row","column")],c)
> m[is.na(m)] <- 0.0
>
> But it's wasteful to process the table again.  Any ideas?
> --
> Christopher D. Long, San Diego Padres, 100 Park Boulevard, San Diego CA
>
> Score: 0, Diff: 1, clong killed by a Harvard Math Team on  1
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