[R] Any container in R?

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Mon Jan 1 16:37:24 CET 2007


On 1/1/2007 10:17 AM, Feng Qiu wrote:
> R has list and array to contain elements. But does R have more powerful 
> container, such as "map" as in C++ STL?  or is there such a package?

In what way are maps more powerful than lists?  You can use names to 
index lists.

The other container in R is the environment; they have fairly strange 
semantics, though.

Duncan Murdoch



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