[R] ASCII map?

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Is there a way to convert between and integer and a character and vice
versa? For instance

   i <- 65;
   ch <- intToChar(i);  # "A"
   i <- charToInt(ch);  # 65

or even better

   i <- c(65, 66);
   ch <- intToChar(i);  # c("A", "B")
   i <- charToInt(ch);  # c(65, 66)

I have tried to do a ASCII map myself, and I figured out that the ASCII
characters can be generated by "\nn", where nn is a octal number. However,
is there already such a map (function) accessable?

Also, is it ok assume that a character string can contain any 7/8-bit ASCII
character (1-127/1-255)? The special value "\0" terminates the character
string. (Is "\0" in a character string safe? Example substring("abc\0def",
5) gives "", but what happens inside [R]?)

Reason for this is that I would like store subparts of the buffer that I
have read using readBin() as a character string, but I would also be able to
save it back using writeBin() without loosing anything.

Thanks for a great language!

Henrik Bengtsson
h e n r i k b @ b r a j u . c o m

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