priority_queue {collections}R Documentation

Priority Queue

Description

priority_queue creates a priority queue (a.k.a heap).

Usage

priority_queue(items = NULL, priorities = rep(0, length(items)))

Arguments

items

a list of items

priorities

a vector of interger valued priorities

Details

Following methods are exposed:

.$push(item, priority = 0)
.$pop()
.$clear()
.$size()
.$as_list()
.$print()

Examples

q <- priority_queue()
q$push("not_urgent")
q$push("urgent", priority = 2)
q$push("not_as_urgent", priority = 1)
q$pop()  # urgent
q$pop()  # not_as_urgent
q$pop()  # not_urgent

q <- priority_queue(list("not_urgent", "urgent"), c(0, 2))
q$push("not_as_urgent", 1)$push("not_urgent2")

[Package collections version 0.3.7 Index]