[R] reshape -> reshape 2: function cast changed?

[Jeff Newmiller]

Not really answering your posed question, but

a) reshape2 uses dcast and acast

b) The "cast" step of "melt-cast-melt" can invoke plyr, and it seems like MCM is just a very inefficient way for you to get at the plyr functionality. Perhaps you should take a more direct route to your goal?
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Johannes Radinger <JRadinger at gmx.at> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I used to use reshape and moved to reshape2 (R 2.15.1). Now I tried
>some of my older scripts and was surprised that my cast function wasn't
>working like before.
>What I did/want to do:
>1) Melt a dataframe based on a vector specifying column names as
>measure.vars. Thats working so far:
>dfm <- melt(df, measure.vars=n, variable_name = "species", na.rm =
>FALSE)
>
>2) Recast the dataframe:
>dfc <- cast(dfm, Var1 + Var2 + Var3 + Var4 ~ species,max) # with
>reshape
>dfc <- dcast(dfm, Var1 + Var2 + Var3 + Var4 ~ species,max) # with
>reshape2
>
>but then I get (this is new to reshape2!) a warning message:
>In .fun(.value[0], ...) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning
>-Inf
>
>The result seems to be similar (but I haven't checked it yet properly)?
>A message to ignore?
>
>I use melt/cast/melt e.g. for multiple measurements (similar name in
>one column) to get only one row (one measurement) with e.g. the max
>value. Of course during the procedure I can also use cast/melt to drop
>columns that are not relevant for further processing.
>
>/Johannes
>
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