Hi, I am confused by the way the indexing works. I read a table from a csv file like this:
ysmd <- read.csv("ysmd.csv",header=TRUE); ysmd.table <- hash(); for (i in 1:length(ysmd$X.stock)) ysmd.table[ysmd$X.stock[i]] <- ysmd[i,]; the first column ("X.stock") is a string (factor): > ysmd$X.stock[[100]] [1] FLO 7757 Levels: A AA AA- AAAAA AAC AACC AACOU AACOW AADR AAI AAME AAN AAON ... ZZZZT when I print ysmd.table, I see the data I expect: ... ZIOP : ZIOP 402600000 3.03 7.85 707694 6.3717 ZIP : ZIP 794900000 23.53 31.5 677046 23.2508 ZIPR : ZIPR 47100000 2.28 3.5 21865 2.4058 ZIV : ZIV -1 12.2987 17.3862 37455 16.6068 ZIXI : ZIXI 254900000 2.1 4.88 905849 3.5146 ... moreover, > ysmd.table[['FLO']] X.stock market.cap X52.week.low X52.week.high X3.month.average.daily.volume 100 FLO 2.984e+09 15.3133 22.37 1021580 X50.day.moving.average.price 100 21.3769 quite correctly. however, > ysmd.table[ysmd$X.stock[[100]]] <hash> containing 0 key-value pair(s). NA : NULL so, how do I access the hash table element using non-literal strings? or, how do I convert ysmd$X.stock[[100]] to a string from whatever it is now? thanks! -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on CentOS release 5.6 (Final) X 11.0.60900031 http://www.PetitionOnline.com/tap12009/ http://ffii.org http://iris.org.il http://truepeace.org http://camera.org The dark past once was the bright future. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.