[R] reshape bug?

[stephen sefick]

no problem- keep up the good work.

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:25 AM, hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>> Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are
>> so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
>> make us feel like gods.  We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
>> annoying little problems of being mammals.
>>
>>                                                                -K. Mullis
>>
>
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>
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-- 
Stephen Sefick
Research Scientist
Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy

Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are
so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
make us feel like gods.  We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
annoying little problems of being mammals.

								-K. Mullis