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> -----Original Message----- > From: Luke Tierney [mailto:luke at stat.uiowa.edu] > R does not provide a pairlist data structure. This creates a dilemma > when translating some list-based xlispstat code, or, more > importantly, when implementing an algorithm for which parilists are > the natural data structure to use. > ... > Pairlists were and still are used internally for many things. > ... Wouldn't it, therefore, make sense to provide a 'pairlist' package which exposes the internal pairlist structure and provides appropriate functions (car, cd...

Dear list, I think I just stumbled across a bug in either 'relist()' and/or 'as.relistable()'. It seems that 'pairlists' can only be un- and relisted as long as they're not nested: Good: a <- as.relistable(as.pairlist(list(a=1, b=2))) a <- unlist(a) relist(a)# Works Bad: a <- as.relistable(as.pairlist(list(a=1, b=2, c=list(c.1=1, c.2=2)))) a <- unlist(a)