[R] programming question

[Thomas Lumley]

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Clayton Springer wrote:

> Dear r-help,
>
> I am trying to build a new function (to process rpart objects) that will
> output matrix that has a row for each node and a column for
> each feature. With each entry in the table is a numerical property
> at that node for that feature (e.g. surrogate split agreement, improvement).
>
> My current trouble is that the only clue to the identity of the feature is
> stored as the *name* of the feature.  Whereas a table is indexed by *number*.
>
> I have a list of sorted names, but I am having trouble translating a name
> into a number. If this where perl the answer would be a hash.
>
> Or can I directly index a table with an alphanumeric string. (ie. a hash).
>

You can index a matrix, dataframe, or list by names

eg using part of the summary.lm output
data(swiss)
cc<-summary(lm(Fertility ~ . , data = swiss))$coef
cc["Agriculture",]
cc[,"Estimate"]
cc["Education","Pr(>|t|)"]


	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle

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