Dear Steve, You need something like this.
cast(Latitude ~ Longitude, data = finalframe, value = "Blaney", fun = mean) HTH, Thierry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest Cel biometrie, methodologie en kwaliteitszorg / Section biometrics, methodology and quality assurance Gaverstraat 4 9500 Geraardsbergen Belgium tel. + 32 54/436 185 [email protected] www.inbo.be To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Namens Steve Murray Verzonden: maandag 17 augustus 2009 18:53 Aan: [email protected] Onderwerp: [R] Reshape package: Casting data to form a grid Dear R Users, I'm trying to use the 'cast' function in the 'reshape' package to convert column-format data to gridded-format data. A sample of my dataset is as follows: head(finalframe) Latitude Longitude Temperature OrigLat p-value Blaney 1 -90 -38.75 NA -87.75 17.10167 NA 2 -90 135.75 NA -87.75 17.10167 NA 3 -90 80.25 NA -87.75 17.10167 NA 4 -90 95.75 NA -87.75 17.10167 NA 5 -90 66.75 NA -87.75 17.10167 NA 6 -90 75.75 NA -87.75 17.10167 NA I'm attempting to form a grid based on the OrigLat, Longitude and Blaney columns, to form the rows, columns and values of the new grid respectively. The command I've been using is: cast_test <- cast(finalframe, finalframe$OrigLat~variable, finalframe$Longitude~variable, finalframe$Blaney~variable) Error: Casting formula contains variables not found in molten data: finalframe$OrigLat, variable And I've tried removing the ~variable suffixes: cast_test <- cast(finalframe, finalframe$OrigLat, finalframe$Longitude, finalframe$Blaney) Error: Casting formula contains variables not found in molten data: -87.75-87.75-87.75-87.75-87.75-87.75-87.75-87.75-87.75-87.75-87.75-87.75 -87.75-87.75 [etc etc] I'm not sure how to get round this error, nor what the 'molten data' is that the error is referring to. I'm assuming it means the data frame presented above, yet the variables are clearly present! Any help or advice on this would be most welcomed. Many thanks, Steve _________________________________________________________________ [[elided Hotmail spam]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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. Dit bericht en eventuele bijlagen geven enkel de visie van de schrijver weer en binden het INBO onder geen enkel beding, zolang dit bericht niet bevestigd is door een geldig ondertekend document. The views expressed in this message and any annex are purely those of the writer and may not be regarded as stating an official position of INBO, as long as the message is not confirmed by a duly signed document. ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
