recast {reshape}R Documentation

Recast

Description

melt and cast data in a single step

Usage

recast(data, formula, ..., id.var, measure.var)

Arguments

data Data set to melt
formula Casting formula, see cast for specifics
... Other arguments passed to cast
id.var Identifying variables. If blank, will use all non measure.var variables
measure.var Measured variables. If blank, will use all non id.var variables

Details

This conveniently wraps melting and casting a data frame into one step.

Author(s)

Hadley Wickham <h.wickham@gmail.com>

See Also

http://had.co.nz/reshape/

Examples

recast(french_fries, time ~ variable, id.var=1:4)

[Package reshape version 0.8.2 Index]