Check and see if you have reshape loaded as well. I had a somewhat similar problem (R2.13 ?) and realised that reshape was masking reshape2
John Kane Kingston ON Canada > -----Original Message----- > From: dwarnol...@suddenlink.net > Sent: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:06:11 -0700 (PDT) > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] rhsape2 bug? > > 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. ____________________________________________________________ FREE ONLINE PHOTOSHARING - Share your photos online with your friends and family! Visit http://www.inbox.com/photosharing to find out more! ______________________________________________ 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.