Hi David, Your example works as expected for me (see sessionInfo below). What version of R are you using? What other packages are loaded?
R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] reshape2_1.2.1 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] plyr_1.7.1 stringr_0.6 tools_2.15.1 Best, Ista On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 7:06 PM, darnold <dwarnol...@suddenlink.net> wrote: > All, > > I believe I am running the latest version of rshape2 (1.2.1). But this code: > > library(reshape2) > > tmp <- melt(smiths, > id.vars=1:2, > measure.vars=c("age","weight","height"), > variable.name="myvars", > value.name="myvals" > ) > > names(tmp) > > Produces this output: > >> names(tmp) > [1] "subject" "time" "variable" "value" > > So you can see that these lines of code don't work: > > variable.name="myvars", > value.name="myvals" > > Is this a bug? > > David > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/rhsape2-bug-tp4637331.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.