Re: [R] Odp: two questions for R beginners

2010-03-01 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:44:44 -0800 (PST) Dieter Menne wrote: > Add me for reshape (the base one); Me too. Each time I try to use it, I invariably spend *hours*, and only end up with error messages ... The 'reshape' and 'plyr' packages are great, though; I use 'plyr' all the time (though someti

Re: [R] Odp: two questions for R beginners

2010-02-26 Thread Dieter Menne
Petr Pikal wrote: > > For the time being I would say that reshape and factor ordering especially > with groupedData objects from nlme are still giving me a headache and many > trials and errors to get desired result. > > For documents in the beginning I would vote for Paul Johnsons Rtips. Ab

[R] Odp: two questions for R beginners

2010-02-26 Thread Petr PIKAL
Hi It was class, mode or type.of imported data which I usually believed they are something but actually they were something else until I learned that when something does not look as I would expect I shall blame myself for wrong expectation. For the time being I would say that reshape and facto