I am baffled. Just what do you want it to do? In melted form the data are all 
in one column and so are necessarily of one type... there are no mixed types to 
cast.

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Jack Luo <jluo.rh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am trying to process some data frame with cast function to unwind the
>stacked variables. I have no problem using cast when the values are all
>numeric based on the following format:
>
>cast(df,subject~v1+v2+v3....,value = "value",fun.aggregate = mean, fill
>=
>"NA")
>
>However, I am getting some trouble when the "value" variable has a
>mixture
>of numeric and character.
>
>I played around dropping off the fun.aggregate = mean option, but it
>use
>the default: which is the length and not what I want.
>
>I am wondering if there is anyway of doing this?
>
>Many thanks,
>
>-Jack
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