Hi, I have data that looks like this:
*> head(ratings) QCode PID RaterName SI1 SI2 SI3 SI4 SI5 SI6 SI7 SI8 SI9 SI10 SI111 GUILT 1123 cwormhoudt 2 2 3 1 1 1 3 3 3 2 12 LOVE 1123 cwormhoudt 1 2 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 33 GUILT 1136 cwormhoudt 1 2 3 1 1 1 2 3 2 2 14 LOVE 1136 cwormhoudt 1 2 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 25 GUILT 1137 cwormhoudt 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 3 1 2 16 LOVE 1137 cwormhoudt 1 3 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4* *> tail(ratings) QCode PID RaterName SI1 SI2 SI3 SI4 SI5 SI6 SI7 SI8 SI9 SI10 SI112456 FUN 1555 zspeidel 1 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 12457 FUN 1556 zspeidel 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 12458 FUN 1558 zspeidel 1 2 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 12459 APPEAR 1558 zspeidel 1 3 3 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 12460 APPEAR 1559 zspeidel 1 3 3 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 12461 FUN 1559 zspeidel 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1* I am trying to use the melt and cast functions to re-arrange it to look like this: * QCode PID sItem cwormhoudt zspeidel1 APPEAR 1123 SI1 1 12 APPEAR 1123 SI2 4 13 APPEAR 1123 SI3 1 24 APPEAR 1123 SI4 3 15 APPEAR 1123 SI5 1 16 APPEAR 1123 SI6 1 3* So, I melt the data like this: *mratings = melt(ratings, variable_name="sItem")* Then cast the data like this: *> outData = cast(mratings, QCode + PID + sItem ~ RaterName)Aggregation requires fun.aggregate: length used as default* But the value columns appear to be displaying counts and not the original values: *> head(outData) QCode PID sItem cwormhoudt zspeidel1 APPEAR 1123 SI1 1 12 APPEAR 1123 SI2 1 13 APPEAR 1123 SI3 1 14 APPEAR 1123 SI4 1 15 APPEAR 1123 SI5 1 16 APPEAR 1123 SI6 1 1> which(outData$zpeidel==3)integer(0)* How to I prevent cast from aggregating the data according to counts? Am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance. MP [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.