In which package do I find the "cast" function. At the moment it's not recognized. Thx, Bert
-----Original Message----- From: John Kane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 December 2007 17:57 To: Bert Jacobs; 'hadley wickham' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] Reshape Dataframe I think if you use Gabor's suggested addtion of add.missing to the original cast command you get what you want. cast(dfm, ... ~ Var3, add.missing=TRUE) --- Bert Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thx Hadley, > It works, but I need some finetuning. > > If I use the following expression: > Newdf <-reshape(df, timevar="Var3", > idvar=c("Var1","Var2"),direction="wide") > > Newdf > Var1 Var2 Var3.W1 Var3.W2 Var3.W3 var3.W4 > A Fa 1 3 > A Si 2 4 > B Si 5 > C La 6 > C Do 7 > > Is there an option so that for each Var1 all > possible combinations of Var2 > are listed (i.e. creation of blanco lines). > Is it possible to name the columns with the values > of the original Var3 > variable, so that the name Var3.W1 changes to W1? > > Var1 Var2 W1 W2 W3 W4 > A Fa 1 3 > A Si 2 4 > A La > A Do > B Fa > B Si 5 > B La > B Do > C Fa > C Si > C La 6 > C Do 7 > > > Thx, > Bert > > -----Original Message----- > From: hadley wickham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 December 2007 15:16 > To: Bert Jacobs > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [R] Reshape Dataframe > > On 12/18/07, Bert Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm having a bit of problems in creating a new > dataframe. > > Below you'll find a description of the current > dataframe and of the > > dataframe that needs to be created. > > Can someone help me out on this one? > > library(reshape) > dfm <- melt(df, id = 1:3) > cast(dfm, ... ~ Var3) > > You can find out more about the reshape package at > http://had.co.nz/reshape > > Hadley > > -- > http://had.co.nz/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, > reproducible code. > Looking for a X-Mas gift? Everybody needs a Flickr Pro Account. http://www.flickr.com/gift/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
