But for data.frame the colnames can be duplicated. Am I right?
Regards.
On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 6:29 PM Jan van der Laan <rhelp at eoos.dds.nl>
wrote:
>
> 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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