Re: [R] casting help please

sage- From: hadley wickham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 1:10 PM To: David Reiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [R] casting help please - Found word(s) list error in the Text body Hi David, Does getting rid of the missings he

Re: [R] casting help please

Hi David, Does getting rid of the missings help? prices <- prices[complete.cases(prices), ] Also, you shouldn't need add.missing=TRUE - what are you trying to do? Hadley On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:12 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a data.frame which I believe is melted already and am

[R] casting help please

I have a data.frame which I believe is melted already and am having trouble casting it to 'wide' format. It looks something like > (x <- data.frame(ticker=c(rep("A",5),rep("B",6)), date=c(1:5, 1:6), value=c(NA,100*exp(rnorm(10,0,.1) > cast(x, date ~ ticker) # this does what I want with to