>> Have you looked at the .summarise argument to dcast? That seems to deliver >> the same sort of results one gets with base::aggregate. > > > Actually I see after looking at examples on the plyr-reshape-googlegroups > group that it is not '.summarise' but rather 'summarise'. Unfortunately > there are no links in the help pages that seem to describe its proper use > ... a not uncommon failing for that package in my experience.
?plyr::summarise seems pretty helpful to me. If you can do better, please submit a patch - they are very much appreciated. Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ 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.
