Thanks everyone.  These messages, especially Jorge's, helped me figure it
out.    Apparently when the reshape package loaded, the plyr package didn't
and I didn't a) notice and more importantly b) didn't realize it needed to
be.   In researching it I did find out that the function is in the plyr
package and thought I had installed it too but guess I did it wrong.  Just
the normal problems of a beginner.  I'm also traveling and on a crappy
internet connection where half of everything I do on the web fails!

 

Bill

(sorry for the html in my original message.  I did read the rules but forgot
to do it)

 

 

From: Jorge I Velez [mailto:jorgeivanve...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 10:49 PM
To: Bill Bentley
Cc: R Help
Subject: Re: [R] Problem with rbind.fill

 

Hi Bill,

 

You need

 

require(plyr)

?rbind.fill

 

and then the rest of the code you already tried.

 

Best,

Jorge.-

 

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 3:49 AM, Bill Bentley <valuetr...@gmail.com> wrote:

The following works as it should...

> both<-rbind(females,males)

> both

  workshop gender q1 q2 q3 q4

1        1      f  1  1  5  1

2        2      f  2  1  4  1

3        1      f  2  2  4  3

5        1      m  4  5  2  4

6        2      m  5  4  5  5

8        2      m  4  5  5  5



Next I changed the objects males and females so they had different numbers
of variables and used rbind again and got an error which I expected.



> both <- rbind(females, males)

Error in rbind(deparse.level, ...) :

  numbers of columns of arguments do not match



Next I attached the 'reshape' library and tried to use rbind.fill but as the
code below shows, it does NOT work.   The library seems to load ok (no error
message) and appears in the list when I use the library() command.



> library("reshape")

> both <- rbind.fill(females, males)

Error: could not find function "rbind.fill"



The book I'm following does this the same way and it works for them.   I've
re-downloaded and installed the reshape package but to no avail.  Not sure
what to do.  Can't find an answer in help.  I'm a brand new R user.   Any
suggestions what I'm doing wrong?   Thanks!












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