In a sense, yes. Elements of named vectors can be accessed via their names and that (internally) uses hashing, I believe. -roger S??ren Merser wrote:> is hashing implemented in R > regards s??ren > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >-- Roger D. Peng http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/
Bioconductor takes a slightly different tact by using environments and a set of tools built around them. Look at the annotate package in bioconductor as an example. Sean On Oct 16, 2004, at 8:13 AM, Roger D. Peng wrote:> In a sense, yes. Elements of named vectors can be accessed via their > names and that (internally) uses hashing, I believe. > > -roger > > S??ren Merser wrote: >> is hashing implemented in R >> regards s??ren >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide! >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > -- > Roger D. Peng > http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
named lists will do regard s??ren btw thanks for the link to S Poetry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Burns" <pburns at pburns.seanet.com> To: "S??ren Merser" <merser at image.dk> Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 5:01 PM Subject: Re: [R] hashing> As someone has stated, names of vectors are hashed. More > generally, you can use a named list. S Poetry mentions this. > > > Patrick Burns > > Burns Statistics > patrick at burns-stat.com > +44 (0)20 8525 0696 > http://www.burns-stat.com > (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") > > S??ren Merser wrote: > >> is hashing implemented in R >> regards s??ren >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide! >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> >> > > >