On 2008-February-12 , at 11:11 , Henrique Dallazuanna wrote: > You can use aggregate: > > aggregate(data[,c("ozone", "solar.r", "wind", "temp")], > list(month=data$month), mean) > > On 12/02/2008, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> We are facing a problem while introducing ourselves to Reshape >> package >> use. Melt seems to work fine, but cast fails when we use mean as >> fun.aggregate. As you see here, length and sum work fine, but mean >> throws this same error whatever dataset we use. >> >>> cast(aqm, month ~ variable, length) >> month ozone solar.r wind temp >> 1 5 26 27 31 31 >> 2 6 9 30 30 30 >> 3 7 26 31 31 31 >> 4 8 26 28 31 31 >> 5 9 29 30 30 30 >>> cast(aqm, month ~ variable, sum) >> month ozone solar.r wind temp >> 1 5 614 4895 360.3 2032 >> 2 6 265 5705 308.0 2373 >> 3 7 1537 6711 277.2 2601 >> 4 8 1559 4812 272.6 2603 >> 5 9 912 5023 305.4 2307 >>> cast(aqm, month ~ variable, mean) >> Error in get(as.character(FUN), mode = "function", envir = envir) : >> variable "fun" of mode "function" was not found >>> >> >> >> Our environment: >> >>> version >> _ >> platform i386-apple-darwin8.10.1 >> arch i386 >> os darwin8.10.1 >> system i386, darwin8.10.1 >> status >> major 2 >> minor 6.2 >> year 2008 >> month 02 >> day 08 >> svn rev 44383 >> language R >> version.string R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08) >> >> >>> installed.packages() >> >> reshape "reshape" >> "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library" "0.8.0" >> NA NA >> >> >> Please, could you help use to work out this issue? Thanks!
It probably won't help much, but may be interesting for diagnostic purposes: it works for me on the same environment except for R 2.6.1 instead of 2.6.2. Have you tried specifying the argument name explicitely? JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.