Re: [R] Reshape:cast; error using "..." in formula expression.

2011-06-09 Thread misterbray
Dennis, doing some more research, and it seems you actually can include the ... term directly in the formula: cf. page 8 of http://www.had.co.nz/reshape/introduction.pdf (that article also explains why you might want to do so). It seems including the ... term only works, however, when your value co

Re: [R] Reshape:cast; error using "..." in formula expression.

2011-06-09 Thread misterbray
Wow---Dennis, your answer makes me feel good about humanity. Thank you; you've made my day. Yours, Rob -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Reshape-cast-error-using-in-formula-expression-tp3584721p3586482.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

[R] Reshape:cast; error using "..." in formula expression.

2011-06-09 Thread misterbray
Whenever I use "..." in the formula of the cast function, from the reshape package, I get the following error: Error in `[.data.frame`(data, , variables, drop = FALSE) : undefined columns selected For example: data(french_fries) #available in the reshape package > head(french_fries) time