R: Recast: melt and cast in a single step

recast {reshape2} | R Documentation

## Recast: melt and cast in a single step

### Description

This conveniently wraps melting and (d)casting a data frame into a single step.

### Usage

    recast(data, formula, ..., id.var, measure.var)

### Arguments

`data` | data set to melt
`formula` | casting formula, see `dcast` for specifics
`...` | other arguments passed to `dcast`
`id.var` | identifying variables. If blank, will use all non measure.var variables
`measure.var` | measured variables. If blank, will use all non id.var variables

### See Also

http://had.co.nz/reshape/

### Examples

    recast(french_fries, time ~ variable, id.var = 1:4)

[Package reshape2 version 1.4.3 Index]