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I issue the following: > d <- density(rnorm(1000)) > d and get: Call: density.default(x = rnorm(1000)) Data: rnorm(1000) (1000 obs.); Bandwidth 'bw' = 0.2235 x y Min. :-3.5157 Min. :2.416e-05 1st Qu.:-1.6892 1st Qu.:1.129e-02 Median : 0.1373 Median :7.267e-02 Mean : 0.1373 Mean :1.367e-01 3rd Qu.: 1.9639

dear R wizards:? I am wrestling with reshape.? I have a long data set that I want to convert into a wide data set, in which rows are firms and columns are years. > summary(rin) firm fyear sim1 Min. :1004.00 Min. :1964.0 Min. : -1.00000 1st Qu.:1010.00 1st Qu.:1979.0 1st Qu.: -0.14334 Median :1016.00 Median :1986.0 Median : 0.00116 Mean

I'm pasting below a working R file featuring a function I'd like to polish up. I'm teaching regression this semester and every time I come to something that is very difficult to explain in class, I try to simplify it by writing an R function (eventually into my package "rockchalk"). Students have a difficult time with predict and newdata objects, so right now I'm