Get object by its memory address
That's not the way to do it. If you want references use Reference Classes or environments. Like this:
First, three objects I am going to put in my linked list:
> e1=new.env()
> e2=new.env()
> e3=new.env()
initialise with a data item and a pointer to the next in the list
> with(e1,{data=99;nextElem=e2})
> with(e2,{data=100;nextElem=e3})
> with(e3,{data=1011;nextElem=NA})
now a function that given an environment returns the next in the linked list:
> nextElem = function(e){with(e,nextElem)}
So lets start from some environment e
:
> e=e1
> with(e,data)
[1] 99
To get the value of the next item in the list:
> with(nextElem(e),data)
[1] 100
and just to prove things are being done by reference, lets change e2:
> with(e2,{data=555})
and the next item from e
has changed too:
> with(nextElem(e),data)
[1] 555
Reference classes should make this a bit cleaner, but require a bit of planning.
Trying to get R objects by their memory location is not going to work.