[R] Help using Cast (Text) Version

[Steve Sidney]

Hi Hadley

Thanks I have downloaded the intro and the material and will work through it 
once  get a chance

Thanks for your interest

Regards
Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "hadley wickham" <h.wickham at gmail.com>
To: "David Winsemius" <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
Cc: "Steve Sidney" <sbsidney at mweb.co.za>; <r-help at r-project.org>
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: [R] Help using Cast (Text) Version


>>> If you can point me towards a doc that explains this in simple terms I
>>> would be obliged. Don't expect you to have to provide the answer.
>>
>> Any of the introductory texts should explain the various forms of 
>> indexing
>> and the use of the apply family of functions. They are both central to
>> effective R programming.
>
> See also the plyr package, http://had.co.nz/plyr, which tries to
> provide a more uniform interface to the apply family of functions.
> I've also tried to document everything in one place, so hopefully it's
> a bit easier to learn and to see how all the different functions fit
> together.
>
> Hadley
>
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