[R] reshape bug?

[hadley wickham]

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for the bug report (and apologies for the delay getting back to
you).  I'm working on a fix today and will hopefully release a new
version in the very near future.

Hadley

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:51 PM, stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hadley et al.,
> I was using the cast function to reshape some data (aggregate a melted
> data frame) and I did not put in the fill and for the most part the
> values that came out were fine, but there were value great than an
> order of magnitude from the actual value.  When I put in the fill
> argument everything is okay.  I don't provide a reproducible example
> because the data set is to large to post to the list, but if you would
> like to see it then I can provide it.
>
> #this works
> cast(x, Date+RiverMile+location~Order, sum, fill=0)
>
> #this doesn't
> cast(x, Date+RiverMile+location~Order, sum)
>
>
>
> R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] splines   grid      stats     graphics  grDevices utils
> datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] ggplot2_0.7        MASS_7.2-44        RColorBrewer_1.0-2
> proto_0.3-8        reshape_0.8.1      plyr_0.1.1
>
>
> thanks
>
> --
> Stephen Sefick
> Research Scientist
> Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy
>
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