how about: c2009 <- cast(m2009, Category + SubCategory +DayOfYear ~ variable , sum) ?
p.s: toy data would be nice to have :) On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:47 PM, <rkevinbur...@charter.net> wrote: > This hopefully is trivial. I am trying to reshape the data using the > reshape package. > > First I read in the data: > > a2009 <- read.csv("Total2009.dat", header = TRUE) > > Then I trim it so that it only contains the columns that I have interested > in: > > m2009 <- melt(a2009, id.var=c("DayOfYear","Category","SubCategory","Sku"), > measure.var=c("Quantity"), na.rm=TRUE) > > Then I start to formulate the data that I will process: > > c2009 <- cast(m2009, DayOfYear ~ variable | Category, sum) > > Finally I aggregate the data: > > t2009 <- cast(m2009, DayOfYear ~ variable, sum) > > My question is on the third step above (repeated here) > > c2009 <- cast(m2009, DayOfYear ~ variable | Category, sum) > > This gets the data assocated with a unique 'Category' name. I want to get > the data grouped by 'Category' and 'SubCategory'. The 'SubCategory' is not > unique but the combination 'Category' and 'SubCategory' form a unique pair. > What would be the formula that would give me the data grouped by Category > AND SubCategory? Would it be as simple as: > > c2009 <- cast(m2009, DayOfYear ~ variable | Category & SubCategory, sum) > > ? > > Thank you for your suggestions. > > Kevin > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- ---------------------------------------------- My contact information: Tal Galili Phone number: 972-50-3373767 FaceBook: Tal Galili My Blogs: www.talgalili.com www.biostatistics.co.il [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.