Hadley et al., I was using the cast function to reshape some data (aggregate a melted data frame) and I did not put in the fill and for the most part the values that came out were fine, but there were value great than an order of magnitude from the actual value. When I put in the fill argument everything is okay. I don't provide a reproducible example because the data set is to large to post to the list, but if you would like to see it then I can provide it.
#this works cast(x, Date+RiverMile+location~Order, sum, fill=0) #this doesn't cast(x, Date+RiverMile+location~Order, sum) R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] splines grid stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] ggplot2_0.7 MASS_7.2-44 RColorBrewer_1.0-2 proto_0.3-8 reshape_0.8.1 plyr_0.1.1 thanks -- Stephen Sefick Research Scientist Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis ______________________________________________ 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.