I don't see where describes the implementation of '[]'. For example, if x is a matrix or a data.frame, how the lookup of 'colname1' is x[, 'colname1'] executed. Does R perform a lookup in the a hash of the colnames? Is the reference O(1) or O(n), where n is the second dim of x?
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