Perhaps I do not understand, but the array (?array) and manipulation of array objects and their components are a fundamental paradigm of R. How is this not **exactly** what you want to do? Perhaps a specific reproducible example might be informative...
Bert Gunter Nonclinical Statistics 7-7374 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jens Scheidtmann Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 12:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [R] data storage/cubes and pointers in R Piet van Remortel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > [...] > Intuitively, I would like to be able to slice the data in a 'data- > cube' kind of way to query, analyze, cluster, fit etc., which > resembles the database data-cube way of thinking common in de db > world these days. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_cube ) > > I have no knowledge of a package that supports such things in an > elegant way within R. If this exists, please point me to it. [...] If non-R systtems are an option for you, please have a look at PALO http://www.palo.net/ or Mondrian http://sourceforge.net/projects/mondrian Maybe writing an interface to these systems may be easier than implementing it... HTH, Jens ______________________________________________ [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. ______________________________________________ [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.
