could not find function “cast” despite reshape2 in

Question

In following Hadley Wickham's "Practical tools for exploring data and models" examples in section 2.4, Casting molten data I'm getting Error: could not find function "cast". I have the reshape2 package installed and loaded.

> cast(msmithsm, time + subject ~ variable)
Error: could not find function "cast"

Answer 1

Had related issue (Error: could not find function "dcast"). I had old library, library(plyr), so just added to code...

install.packages("reshape2") # may already be installed
library(reshape2)

Then dcast worked again

Answer 2

In reshape2, cast() has been replaced by two functions: acast() and dcast().

From ?cast, in package reshape2:

Description:

Use ‘acast’ or ‘dcast’ depending on whether you want vector/matrix/array output or data frame output.