Thanks, it looks like that package will do the trick! On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Tamas Papp <tkp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> AFAIK https://github.com/davidavdav/NamedArrays.jl already does this and > is maintained actively. > > Best, > > Tamas > > On Tue, Sep 08 2015, Andreas Lobinger <lobing...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello colleague, > > > > in the first order i think this could be emulated by a dictionary mapping > > the row name to an index into a matrix or DataFrame. > > Afaics calling this a 'misfeature' comes from trying to make a matrix > > datatype that has row names by default and many people with > > numerics/engineering background reserve the name matrix for the simplest > > possible form: rectangular array with single number entries and integer > row > > and column indexing. > > > > So what you look for: a rectangular collection accessible with both row > and > > column index as names is something new and should have different name. > You > > could browse the dataFrames development and see if there are enough hooks > > to extend this. > > > > Bringing this into julia as package (written in julia) should not be that > > complicated if defined clearly (but still, someone is needed to > implement). > >
