Message-ID: <CABdHhvEZy+VWkFDaRr-vFZ0T8TXN=iamn=c3gvGZrpcyM1iJhA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2011-12-24T02:23:17Z
From: Hadley Wickham
Subject: cast in reshape and reshape2
In-Reply-To: <64F2050B-52EE-41EF-AD55-460C43331DD8@comcast.net>
>> Have you looked at the .summarise argument to dcast? That seems to deliver
>> the same sort of results one gets with base::aggregate.
>
>
> Actually I see after looking at examples on the plyr-reshape-googlegroups
> group that it is not '.summarise' but rather 'summarise'. Unfortunately
> there are no links in the help pages that seem to describe its proper use
> ... a not uncommon failing for that package in my experience.
?plyr::summarise seems pretty helpful to me. If you can do better,
please submit a patch - they are very much appreciated.
Hadley
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Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair
Department of Statistics / Rice University
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