[R] Problem with rbind.fill

[Pascal Oettli]

Hello,

Yes, but... "rbind.fill" is a function of the "plyr" package.

HTH,
Pascal

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 2:49 AM, Bill Bentley <valuetrain at gmail.com> wrote:
> The following works as it should...
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>> both<-rbind(females,males)
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>> both
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>   workshop gender q1 q2 q3 q4
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> 1        1      f  1  1  5  1
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> 2        2      f  2  1  4  1
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> 3        1      f  2  2  4  3
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> 5        1      m  4  5  2  4
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> 6        2      m  5  4  5  5
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> 8        2      m  4  5  5  5
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> Next I changed the objects males and females so they had different numbers
> of variables and used rbind again and got an error which I expected.
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>> both <- rbind(females, males)
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> Error in rbind(deparse.level, ...) :
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>   numbers of columns of arguments do not match
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> Next I attached the 'reshape' library and tried to use rbind.fill but as the
> code below shows, it does NOT work.   The library seems to load ok (no error
> message) and appears in the list when I use the library() command.
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>> library("reshape")
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>> both <- rbind.fill(females, males)
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> Error: could not find function "rbind.fill"
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> The book I'm following does this the same way and it works for them.   I've
> re-downloaded and installed the reshape package but to no avail.  Not sure
> what to do.  Can't find an answer in help.  I'm a brand new R user.   Any
> suggestions what I'm doing wrong?   Thanks!
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Pascal Oettli
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