[R] Reshape:cast; error using "..." in formula expression.

[Hadley Wickham]

Yes, the basic problem is that you forgot to melt the data before
trying to cast it.

Hadley

On Thursday, June 9, 2011, misterbray <misterbray at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dennis, doing some more research, and it seems you actually can include the
> ... term directly in the formula: cf. page 8 of
> http://www.had.co.nz/reshape/introduction.pdf (that article also explains
> why you might want to do so). It seems including the ... term only works,
> however, when your value column actually has the name "value" (e.g. using
> the value="my.val" option yields the error). This was the "bug" that was
> catching me up yesterday.
>
> Thank you again Dennis,
> Yours,
> Rob
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