Problem with rbind.fill
On Jun 1, 2014, at 10:49 AM, Bill Bentley wrote:
The following works as it should...
both<-rbind(females,males)
both
workshop gender q1 q2 q3 q4 1 1 f 1 1 5 1 2 2 f 2 1 4 1 3 1 f 2 2 4 3 5 1 m 4 5 2 4 6 2 m 5 4 5 5 8 2 m 4 5 5 5 Next I changed the objects males and females so they had different numbers of variables and used rbind again and got an error which I expected.
both <- rbind(females, males)
Error in rbind(deparse.level, ...) : numbers of columns of arguments do not match Next I attached the 'reshape' library and tried to use rbind.fill but as the code below shows, it does NOT work. The library seems to load ok (no error message) and appears in the list when I use the library() command.
library("reshape")
Try: help(pack="reshape") Do you see a listing for rbind.fill? I don't.
both <- rbind.fill(females, males)
Error: could not find function "rbind.fill"
If you cannot find a function then try: ??rbind.fill
The book I'm following does this the same way and it works for them.
Maybe they loaded a different package? Or perhaps one that attached the package that has rbind.fill?
I've re-downloaded and installed the reshape package but to no avail. Not sure what to do. Can't find an answer in help. I'm a brand new R user. Any suggestions what I'm doing wrong? Thanks!
My suggestion ( which is only slightly disingenuous, since I do know what package has the forenamed function), is to "learn to fish":
# Either:
install.packages("sos")
library(sos)
findFn("rbind.fill")
# Or:
Google it.
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