> In the case the metadata are stored in a list, that interface enforces the > building of a list. > (I said to ignore implementation for now, but paradoxically this made me > consider possible implementations).
Creating the list on the fly if it's not stored internally as a list should be cheap. For example, this is done with data frames, that store "dimnames" in two separate attributes, "names" and "row.names". ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
