[R] data storage/cubes and pointers in R

[Jens Scheidtmann]

Piet van Remortel <piet.vanremortel at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
[...]
> 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.
[...]

If non-R systtems are an option for you, please have a look at PALO
http://www.palo.net/ or Mondrian http://sourceforge.net/projects/mondrian

Maybe writing an interface to these systems may be easier than
implementing it...
 
HTH,

Jens