[R] Is there a hash data structure for R

[Abby Spurdle]

Here's an interesting article:
    Collections in R: Review and Proposal
    Timothy Barry
        The R Journal
        doi: 10.32614/RJ-2018-037
    https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2018/RJ-2018-037/RJ-2018-037.pdf

On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 10:48 PM Yonghua Peng <yong using pobox.com> wrote:
>
> I know this is a newbie question. But how do I implement the hash structure
> which is available in other languages (in python it's dict)?
>
> I know there is the list, but list's names can be duplicated here.
>
> > x <- list(x=1:5,y=month.name,x=3:7)
>
> > x
>
> $x
>
> [1] 1 2 3 4 5
>
>
> $y
>
>  [1] "January"   "February"  "March"     "April"     "May"       "June"
>
>  [7] "July"      "August"    "September" "October"   "November"  "December"
>
>
> $x
>
> [1] 3 4 5 6 7
>
>
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
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