I am not sure about this but I don't see how a melt command helps.
See what
z = dcast(x, I ~ V, mean)
gives you.
--- On Sun, 3/13/11, Jim & Carolyn Watkins <jcwat...@gwi.net> wrote:
> From: Jim & Carolyn Watkins <jcwat...@gwi.net>
> Subject: [R] A basic question about reshape2
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Received: Sunday, March 13, 2011, 9:18 AM
> Dear R Community:
>
>
>
> This is a newbie reshare2 question; it starts with read a
> set of data and to
> melt it:
>
> x = data.frame(I=c("a","b","a","b","b"), V=c(2,4,2,5,7))
>
> y = melt(x, id = 1:1)
>
> What is wrong with the final dcast step:
>
> z = dcast(y, formula = I ~ "variable", c(length,
> mean, median))
> Will one of you please help me with this problem?
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