Slices of Named R Objects

Description Usage Arguments Value reverse.lookup Note See Also Examples

This function causes the pattern search to be performed against an object's values instead of its names

1	reverse.lookup(string)

string

pattern for which to match against an objects values

reverse.lookup sets and toggles the logical attribute with name reverse.lookup. Actual implementation of the reverse lookup is performed in the Extract methods.

In order to perform a reverse lookup, values must be converted to character names.

a string object with the reversse.lookup attribute set.

When performing a reverse lookup, values (not names) are searched. The corresponding names are returned. NOTE: this is highly experimental and only works for atomic vectors. It is uncertain how this might be applied to recursive structures like lists.

What happens if there are two reverse.lookups

The invert function in the hash package