[R] reshape::cast: invalid 'yinds' argument

[Hadley Wickham]

Hi Albert-Jan,

It's impossible to know what went wrong without a reproducible example
(https://github.com/hadley/devtools/wiki/Reproducibility).  Without
that, all I can recommend is trying out reshape2.

Hadley

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using reshape to cast molten data. When I use the following command, R
> either crashes (when I use Notepad++) or gives an error (when I use Rgui or
> source()), BUT the error occurs not always, maybe only on half the attempts:
> w <- cast(v, id + code + productname + year + begin + end + specificDesc +
> specificDesc2 ~ type)
> Error in merge.data.frame(data, all.combinations, by = unlist(vars), sort =
> FALSE,  :
>
>  invalid 'yinds' argument
>
> What does this message mean, and how can I get rid of the error? I tried
> changing the colvars from character to factor, but that didn't help.
>
> I'm using R2.10.1 and either WinXP or Win2000.
>
>  Thanks in advance,
> Albert-Jan
>
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