[R] python-like dictionary for R

Seth Falcon seth at userprimary.net
Thu Dec 23 16:39:11 CET 2010


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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