I can't see the value of your first melt, which appears to result in a column
filled with identical values "crop_group".
You really should read the posting guide and provide a reproducible example.
I suspect that you would benefit from learning how to use the plyr library.
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Muzna Alvi <muzna.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
thanks for that ista actually i want to break this into maybe three different
data sets with each of the 3 kinds of sugarcane... it would be better if i
could have this in one data set but if someone could tell me how i can run
descriplitive statistics on each of the groups separately.. i would need to
melt and cast for that right? On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Ista Zahn
<iz...@psych.rochester.edu>wrote: > Hi Muzna, > If I understand your question,
it's not really about melting or > casting, but about re-ordering. Try this: >
> canefile <- canefile[order(canefile$value), ] > > see ?"[" and ?order > >
HTH, > Ista > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Muzna Alvi
<muzna.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a dataset that is based on crop output
for a single crop > > *sugarcane*...but > > each observation is further
subdivided into 3 kinds of sugarcane > > i have read the file and have also
used melt it to sort it on the > > basis of *crop > > group* using > > > >
melt(sugarcane,
m=c("Crop_group")) -> canefile > > > > this is how it has cast the data > > > >
variable value > > 1 Crop_group Sugarcane (first ratoon) > > 2 Crop_group
Sugarcane (planted crop) > > 3 Crop_group Sugarcane (planted crop) > > 4
Crop_group Sugarcane (second ratoon) > > 5 Crop_group Sugarcane (first ratoon)
> > 6 Crop_group Sugarcane (planted crop) > > > > > > now i need to *cast *the
data so that i can have each of the 20 odd > > variables sorted according to
the 3 subdivisions under *Crop_group *ie > first > > ratoon), second ratoon etc
etc.. > > > > i tried using > > > > cast (canefile, ~value) -> canefile > > > >
but it said "Aggregation requires fun.aggregate: length used as default" > > >
> i want to cast it on all the 20 variables and sort it on the basis of > first
> > ratoon, second ratoon and planted crop > > > > How i do my CAST command? >
> > > I hope my question is clear...thanks in advance > > > > * > > * > > * > >
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