Interestingly enoughhelp(cast) did not work but ?cast does As Ista says, there is no cast() in reshape2
John Kane Kingston ON Canada > -----Original Message----- > From: tea...@gmail.com > Sent: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 11:55:43 -0400 > To: neotropical.b...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: [R] reshape2 issue continued > > Bruce, > > I'm not sure what's going on since I tried this on my Linux system > running > R 3.0.0 and just did: > > library(reshape2) > help(cast) > > and the help for 'cast' came up. There was no indication to me that > 'reshape' was needed and I can not see a dependency in CRAN for > 'reshape'. > But I built R from source when installing R 3.0.0 and all the packages I > use had to be reinstalled... > > Great research, BTW! > > Tom > > > On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Neotropical bat risk assessments < > neotropical.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi again all, >> Several replied ASAP that I also needed reshape loaded and not just >> reshape2. >> Hmmm tried that and I had some output but not the correct format. >> >> What I need is to run simulations of time overlap between species as per >> the simulation program data input constraints: >> >> The basis for the simulations is a species by _time-use matrix in which >> species are arranged in rows, and time intervals are arranged >> chronologically in columns.___ TimeOverlap only uses text tab-delimited >> files with no headings for columns or rows.Empirical data must be >> specified in proportional abundances (0 to 100) and totals for each >> species should be the same (100%). >> >> With the existing code the result was rows were correct for species but >> dates were used for columns rather than the times. >> >> The input file read has long format 4 columns - species; location; date; >> time. >> >> It dawns on me I may need to have a sub sample of the main data set by >> Location ID first then have the code run but for time values and not >> dates. >> >> I need to tweak this a bit more to see if I can figure that out as well. >> >> I will have many repetitions of this dat reformatting so it is important >> I get the code correct one time so I can run this on the gazillion or so >> data sets accumulated. >> >> Rather than use reshape can I use _recast_ in place of cast and stick >> with reshape2? >> >> Bruce >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER - Watch dolphins, sharks & orcas on your desktop! ______________________________________________ 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.