[R] data storage/cubes and pointers in R

[hadley wickham]

> Intuitively, I would like to be able to slice the data in a 'data-
> cube' kind of way to query, analyze, cluster, fit etc., which
> resembles the database data-cube way of thinking common in de db
> world these days. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_cube )
>
> I have no knowledge of a package that supports such things in an
> elegant way within R.  If this exists, please point me to it.

Have a look at the reshape package (http://had.co.nz/reshape) which
supports some of these operations.

Hadley