frozenSet: frozenSet: flatten a set into a hash key (or more generally,...

In ttriche/dendRix: Port of DENDRIX (Vandin, Upfal, & Raphael, Genome Res, 2011) to R

Description

The sole functionality of the frozenset() class in Dendrix appeared to be as a hashable key, so this function simply replicates that functionality in R.

Usage

  frozenSet(set)

Arguments

set	A collapsible object, typically a vector or Vector.
sep	The character to separate items in the serialized object. Default is |.

Value

A string, with the entries sorted in alphabetical order.

Author(s)

Tim Triche, Jr.

Examples

 
  ## instead of |
  separator = ' '

  ## pickle a random sample of letters into a hashable key 
  foo = frozenSet( letters[ sample(1:26, 10) ], sep=separator )

  ## now recover the original (sorted, de-duplicated) sample
  bar = strsplit( foo, separator, fixed=TRUE )[[1]]

  ## and print it
  print(bar)

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