> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Rich Shepard > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 10:36 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] reshape2 errors on data frame > > On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, John Kane wrote: > > > It would be very helpful to have some sample data to play with. > > John, > > dput() doesn't want to cooperate so here are 100 rows from the raw > data > file that can be input with read.table("sample.dat", header = T, sep = > "|"): > > 'site'|'sampdate'|'preeq0'|'param'|'quant'|'ceneq1'|'floor'|'ceiling' > 'A'|'2007-12-12'|1|'Ag'|0.005|1|0|0.005
<<<snip>>> > 'B-2'|'1992-04-02'|0|'Mn'|0.001|1|0|0.001 > > Rich > Rich, The melt syntax you provided in a previous email runs without error on the data that you just supplied. So, your comment that "dput() doesn't want to cooperate" suggests that maybe there is a problem with your waterchem data frame. Maybe someone else will have more insight into the problem. Sorry I can't be of more help, Dan Daniel J. Nordlund Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Planning, Performance, and Accountability Research and Data Analysis Division Olympia, WA 98504-5204 ______________________________________________ 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.