Message-ID: <AANLkTimNWCitFJ4v1hZuGuwBRRAyP_WXgB3nxQWPioMR@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2010-12-23T15:39:11Z
From: Seth Falcon
Subject: python-like dictionary for R
In-Reply-To: <4D12BC84.7090304@fhcrc.org>
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Martin Morgan <mtmorgan at fhcrc.org> wrote:
> On 12/22/2010 05:49 PM, Paul Rigor wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone has played around this this package called
>> "rdict"? It attempts to implement a hash table in R using skip lists. Just
>> came across it while trying to look for simpler text manipulation methods:
>>
>> http://userprimary.net/posts/2010/05/29/rdict-skip-list-hash-table-for-R/
>
> kind of an odd question, so kind of an odd answer.
>
> I'd say this was an implementation of skip lists in C with an R
> interface.
I had to play around with the rdict package in order to write it, but
haven't used it much since :-P
Be sure to look at R's native environment objects which provide a hash
table structure and are suitable for many uses.
+ seth
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