Dear all, Lets say I have several data frames as follows:
> set.seed(42) > dates <- as.Date(c("2010-01-19", "2010-01-20")) > times <- c("09:30:00", "11:30:00", "13:30:00", "15:30:00") > shows <- c("Red Dwarf", "Being Human", "Doctor Who") > > df1 <- data.frame(Date = dates[1], Time = times[1], Show = shows, Score = 1:3) > df2 <- data.frame(Date = dates[1], Time = times[2], Show = shows, Score = 1:3) > df3 <- data.frame(Date = dates[1], Time = times[4], Show = shows, Score = 1:3) > df4 <- data.frame(Date = dates[2], Time = times[1], Show = shows, Score = 1:3) > df5 <- data.frame(Date = dates[2], Time = times[2], Show = shows, Score = 1:3) > df6 <- data.frame(Date = dates[2], Time = times[3], Show = shows, Score = 1:3) > df7 <- data.frame(Date = dates[2], Time = times[4], Show = shows, Score = 1:3) > df7 Date Time Show Score 1 2010-01-20 15:30:00 Red Dwarf 1 2 2010-01-20 15:30:00 Being Human 2 3 2010-01-20 15:30:00 Doctor Who 3 I would like to somehow reshape the data into a different format: > df.list <- list(df1, df2, df3, df4, df5, df6, df7) > my.df <- Reduce(function(x, y) merge(x, y, all=TRUE), df.list, accumulate=F) > my.xtab <- xtabs(as.numeric(Score) ~ Date + Show + Time, data = my.df) This is where my problem occurs. In Time = 13:30:00, there is now data for "2010-01-19" which was not in any of my original data frames above: > # I do not want the zeros below > my.xtab[,,"13:30:00"] Show Date Being Human Doctor Who Red Dwarf 2010-01-19 0 0 0 2010-01-20 2 3 1 Perhaps I am missing something in the way i call the xtabs function? Thank you kindly for your time, Tony Breyal OS: Windows XP 64bit > sessionInfo() R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: [1] 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] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_2.10.0 ______________________________________________ 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.