[Rd] reshape error in 1.4 (PR#1231)

[kevin.wright@pioneer.com]

Thanks for the replies.

For whatever reason, installing the "official" version solved the problem.

Kevin Wright

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 2:30 AM
> To: Peter Dalgaard BSA
> Cc: Wright, Kevin; R-bugs@biostat.ku.dk
> Subject: Re: [Rd] reshape error in 1.4 (PR#1231)
> 
> 
> On 27 Dec 2001, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> 
> > Kevin.Wright@pioneer.com writes:
> >
> > > Full_Name: Kevin Wright
> > > Version: 1.4
> > > OS: Windows 95
> > > Submission from: (NULL) (170.54.59.160)
> > >
> > >
> > > Note: This was the 1.4 build for Windows that Brian 
> Ripley made available.
> > >
> > > The first example in the help for reshape doesn't work 
> for me.  When I cut and
> > > paste, this is what happens:
> > >
> > > >      data(Indometh,package="nls")
> > > >      summary(Indometh)
> > >  Subject      time            conc
> > >  1:11    Min.   :0.250   Min.   :0.0500
> > >  4:11    1st Qu.:0.750   1st Qu.:0.1100
> > >  2:11    Median :2.000   Median :0.3400
> > >  5:11    Mean   :2.886   Mean   :0.5918
> > >  6:11    3rd Qu.:5.000   3rd Qu.:0.8325
> > >  3:11    Max.   :8.000   Max.   :2.7200
> > > >      wide<-reshape(Indometh,v.names="conc",idvar="Subject",
> > > +                     timevar="time",direction="wide")
> > > Error in tapply(a, data[, idvar], function(b) 
> length(unique(b)) == 1) :
> > >         arguments must have same length
> >
> > This doesn't appear to be reproducible on non-Windows machines, and
> > I'd suspect that Brian checks quite carefully for this kind of thing
> > on Windows as well. You wouldn't happen to have something floating
> > around in your workspace that could get in the way? Otherwise try
> > turning on debug(reshape) and when it is defined also
> > debug(reshapeWide). Then tell us what is in a and data[, idvar] when
> > the problem appears.
> 
> Yes, example(reshape) works on that build on the machine on 
> which it was
> built.  Running all the examples is part of make check, so if 
> they fail
> for you it is very likely to be a local problem.
> 
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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