From enrique.bengoechea at credit-suisse.com  Fri Jul 10 10:58:25 2009
From: enrique.bengoechea at credit-suisse.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bengoechea_Bartolom=E9_Enrique_=28SIES_73=29?=)
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:58:25 +0200
Subject: [Rd] Suggestion: Dimension-sensitive attributes
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> 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".



[Rd] Suggestion: Dimension-sensitive attributes
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