[R] hashing using named lists

[Tony Plate]

Use match() for exact matching,

i.e.,

 > test[[match("name", names(test))]]

Yes, it is more cumbersome.  This partial matching is considered by some to 
be a design fault, but changing it would break too many programs that 
depend upon it.

I don't understand your question about all.equal.list() -- it does seem to 
require exact matches on names, e.g.:

 > all.equal(list(a=1:3), list(aa=1:3))
[1] "Names: 1 string mismatches"
 > all.equal(list(aa=1:3), list(a=1:3))
[1] "Names: 1 string mismatches"
 >

(the above run in R 2.0.0)

-- Tony Plate

(BTW, in R this operation is generally called "indexing" or "subscripting" 
or "extraction", but not "hashing".  "Hashing" is a specific technique for 
managing and looking up indices, which is why some other programming 
languages refer to list-like objects that are indexed by character strings 
as "hashes".  I don't think hashing is used for list names in R, but 
someone please correct me if I'm wrong! )

At Thursday 09:29 AM 11/18/2004, ulas karaoz wrote:
>hi all,
>I am trying to use named list to hash a bunch of vector by name, for instance:
>test = list()
>test$name = c(1,2,3)
>
>the problem is that when i try to get the values back by using the name, 
>the matching isn't done in an exact way, so
>test$na is not NULL.
>
>is there a way around this?
>Why by default all.equal.list doesnt require an exact match?
>How can I do hashing in R?
>
>thanks.
>ulas.
>
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