Hi, can someone tell me how to use associative arrays in R? It can be
a hashtable or some kind of tree, as long as the lookups aren't O(n).
One way to do this is to use names, e.g. in:
list(a=3, ...)[["a"]]
presumably looking up "a" is very quick. (Can someone tell me offhand
how that is implemented? Hashtable?) However, if I wanted to, say,
memoize a numeric function, I can't elegantly use R names because R names must
be characters.
I found the hash package on CRAN:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/hash/index.html
but it seems the keys are still characters. Also, I haven't heard
anyone talking about it. Trees and hashtables are common data
structures, so this problem must come up a lot.
Thanks,
--
Ben
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