Re: [R] How to plug in characters as object names in a formula (recast from package reshape2 specifically)

Try this (untested code): recast(df, formula(paste(xvar, ~, yvar)), id.var=1:2, measure.var=3) Jean On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Jun Shen jun.shen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, This may be very simple but I couldn't figure it out. I have this function

[R] How to plug in characters as object names in a formula (recast from package reshape2 specifically)

Hi everyone, This may be very simple but I couldn't figure it out. I have this function rsm.lm-function(data,xvar='xCmin',yvar='yCmin') { #some calculation.. recast(df, xvar~yvar, id.var=1:2, measure.var=3) #some other operations } df is a dataframe defined internally within the