Good day,

In the Examples section of the reshape function documentation is an example 
that reshapes that data frame state.x77. However, the resulting long data frame 
doesn't seem correct. It has three columns; Characteristic, Population and 
state. The second column probably shouldn't be named Population because it 
stores all of the values for all of the variables and only one of the variables 
in the dataset is Population. I wouldn't expect to see values for Frost in the 
Population column, for example. Is it a bug? I think that a column name such as 
Value would be appropriate.

> sessionInfo()
R Under development (unstable) (2018-01-07 r74096)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS

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Dario Strbenac
University of Sydney
Camperdown NSW 2050
Australia

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