AFAIK https://github.com/davidavdav/NamedArrays.jl already does this and is maintained actively.
Best, Tamas On Tue, Sep 08 2015, Andreas Lobinger <lobing...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello colleague, > > in the first order i think this could be emulated by a dictionary mapping > the row name to an index into a matrix or DataFrame. > Afaics calling this a 'misfeature' comes from trying to make a matrix > datatype that has row names by default and many people with > numerics/engineering background reserve the name matrix for the simplest > possible form: rectangular array with single number entries and integer row > and column indexing. > > So what you look for: a rectangular collection accessible with both row and > column index as names is something new and should have different name. You > could browse the dataFrames development and see if there are enough hooks > to extend this. > > Bringing this into julia as package (written in julia) should not be that > complicated if defined clearly (but still, someone is needed to implement).
