On 01-May-10 14:46:28, Giovanni Azua wrote: > Hello, > What would be in R the closest match to a c-struct? e.g. data.frame > requires all elements to be of the same length ... or is there a way to > circumvent this? > > TIA, > Best regards, > Giovanni
Well, 'list' must be pretty close! The main difference would be that in C the structure type would be declared first, and then applied to create an object with that structure, whereas an R lists are created straight off. If you want to set up a generic list type for a certain purpose, you would wrap its definition in a function. Another difference is that R lacks the "pointer" type, so that R's "mylist$component" is the equivalent of C's "mylist.component"; I don't think you can do the equivalent in R of C's "mylist->component" (though I'm likely to be wrong about that, and to be promptly corrected)! Hopingb this helps, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[email protected]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 01-May-10 Time: 16:04:06 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
