> library(reshape2) > x = melt(airquality, id=c('month', 'day')) With reshape I can cast with multiple functions:
> library(reshape) > cast(x, month+variable~., c(mean,sd)) month variable mean sd 1 5 ozone 23.615385 22.224449 2 5 solar.r 181.296296 115.075499 3 5 wind 11.622581 3.531450 4 5 temp 65.548387 6.854870 5 6 ozone 29.444444 18.207904 6 6 solar.r 190.166667 92.882975 7 6 wind 10.266667 3.769234 8 6 temp 79.100000 6.598589 9 7 ozone 59.115385 31.635837 10 7 solar.r 216.483871 80.568344 11 7 wind 8.941935 3.035981 12 7 temp 83.903226 4.315513 13 8 ozone 59.961538 39.681210 14 8 solar.r 171.857143 76.834943 15 8 wind 8.793548 3.225930 16 8 temp 83.967742 6.585256 17 9 ozone 31.448276 24.141822 18 9 solar.r 167.433333 79.118280 19 9 wind 10.180000 3.461254 20 9 temp 76.900000 8.355671 Is there a way to do the same job with reshape2? -- Kaiyin Zhong ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Neuroscience Research Institute, Peking University, Beijing, P.R.China 100038 ______________________________________________ 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.