Yes, the basic problem is that you forgot to melt the data before trying to cast it.
Hadley On Thursday, June 9, 2011, misterbray <misterb...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 column actually has the name "value" (e.g. using > the value="my.val" option yields the error). This was the "bug" that was > catching me up yesterday. > > Thank you again Dennis, > Yours, > Rob > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Reshape-cast-error-using-in-formula-expression-tp3584721p3586597.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ 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.