[R] Basic Question on Keys/Values
Dumblauskas, Jerry
jerry.dumblauskas at credit-suisse.com
Mon Jun 9 20:11:20 CEST 2008
I've received a couple of responses telling me to use list (I was trying
to use 2 equal length vectors but having an issue pulling out the index
subscript).
I can use lists now, and stop thrashing.... :)
Thx again for the assistance!
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From: dmbates at gmail.com [mailto:dmbates at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Douglas
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To: Dumblauskas, Jerry
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Subject: Re: [R] Basic Question on Keys/Values
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Dumblauskas, Jerry
<jerry.dumblauskas at credit-suisse.com> wrote:
> As a java programmer, I'm having issue conceptualizing the following
> use
> case:
> Given an value, passed into a function, how do I pull out the lookup?
> Ie.
> A list of keys (key1, key2, key3)
> A list of values (val1,val2,val3)
> I want to write a function (or is there something built in?) such that
> Callit <- (thekey) {
> (magic happens here)
> Return value
> }
If the keys are text strings then you can use a named list as the
container.
> foo <- list(a = 1:10, b = LETTERS[1:3], ttt = Formaldehyde) foo$b
[1] "A" "B" "C"
> bar <- "a"
> foo$bar
NULL
> foo[[bar]]
[1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Note that the $ operator is an extractor for an explicit name. If you
want the value corresponding to a key which is itself stored as an
object in R you must use the '[[' notation.
Lists are suitable for a small to moderate number of key/value pairs.
For large numbers of key/value pairs you may want to consider
environments instead.
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks a bunch!
>
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