True, but in a lot of cases where a python user might use a dict an R
user will probably use a list; or when we are talking about arrays of
dicts in python, the R solution will probably be a data.frame (with each
dict field in a separate column).
Jan
On 02-11-2021 11:18, Eric Berger wrote:> One choice is
> new.env(hash=TRUE)
> in the base package
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 11:48 AM Yonghua Peng <yong at pobox.com>
wrote:
>
>> I know this is a newbie question. But how do I implement the hash
structure
>> which is available in other languages (in python it's dict)?
>>
>> I know there is the list, but list's names can be duplicated here.
>>
>>> x <- list(x=1:5,y=month.name,x=3:7)
>>
>>> x
>>
>> $x
>>
>> [1] 1 2 3 4 5
>>
>>
>> $y
>>
>> [1] "January" "February" "March"
"April" "May" "June"
>>
>> [7] "July" "August" "September"
"October" "November" "December"
>>
>>
>> $x
>>
>> [1] 3 4 5 6 7
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
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