[R] Reshape package: Casting data to form a grid

ONKELINX, Thierry Thierry.ONKELINX at inbo.be
Tue Aug 18 14:03:34 CEST 2009


Dear Steve,

You need something like this.

cast(Latitude ~ Longitude, data = finalframe, value = "Blaney", fun =
mean) 

HTH,

Thierry

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-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
Namens Steve Murray
Verzonden: maandag 17 augustus 2009 18:53
Aan: r-help at r-project.org
Onderwerp: [R] Reshape package: Casting data to form a grid


Dear R Users,

I'm trying to use the 'cast' function in the 'reshape' package to
convert column-format data to gridded-format data. A sample of my
dataset is as follows:

head(finalframe)
  Latitude Longitude Temperature OrigLat  p-value Blaney
1      -90    -38.75          NA  -87.75 17.10167     NA
2      -90    135.75          NA  -87.75 17.10167     NA
3      -90     80.25          NA  -87.75 17.10167     NA
4      -90     95.75          NA  -87.75 17.10167     NA
5      -90     66.75          NA  -87.75 17.10167     NA
6      -90     75.75          NA  -87.75 17.10167     NA


I'm attempting to form a grid based on the OrigLat, Longitude and Blaney
columns, to form the rows, columns and values of the new grid
respectively.

The command I've been using is:

cast_test <- cast(finalframe, finalframe$OrigLat~variable,
finalframe$Longitude~variable, finalframe$Blaney~variable)
Error: Casting formula contains variables not found in molten data:
finalframe$OrigLat, variable

And I've tried removing the ~variable suffixes:

cast_test <- cast(finalframe, finalframe$OrigLat, finalframe$Longitude,
finalframe$Blaney)
Error: Casting formula contains variables not found in molten data:
-87.75-87.75-87.75-87.75-87.75-87.75-87.75-87.75-87.75-87.75-87.75-87.75
-87.75-87.75 [etc etc]


I'm not sure how to get round this error, nor what the 'molten data' is
that the error is referring to. I'm assuming it means the data frame
presented above, yet the variables are clearly present!

Any help or advice on this would be most welcomed.

Many thanks,

Steve


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