How to reshape data from long to wide format

I'm having trouble rearranging the following data frame: ``` set.seed(45) dat1 <- data.frame( name = rep(c("firstName", "secondName"), each=4), numbers = rep(1:4, 2), value = rnorm(8) ) dat1 name numbers value 1 firstName 1 0.3407997 2 firstName 2 -0.7033403 3 firstName 3 -0.3795377 4 firstName 4 -0.7460474 5 secondName 1 -0.8981073 6 secondName 2 -0.3347941 7 secondName 3 -0.5013782 8 secondName 4 -0.1745357 ``` I want to reshape it so that each unique "name" variable is a rowname, with the "values" as observations along that row and the "numbers" as colnames. Sort of like this: ``` name 1 2 3 4 1 firstName 0.3407997 -0.7033403 -0.3795377 -0.7460474 5 secondName -0.8981073 -0.3347941 -0.5013782 -0.1745357 ``` I've looked at `melt` and `cast` and a few other things, but none seem to do the job.