[R] Getting characters from integers

Ben Bolker ben at zoo.ufl.edu
Wed Oct 10 15:07:22 CEST 2001


  LETTERS or letters might do what you want; they are character vectors
containing the (upper- or lowercase) alphabet.  (If they didn't exist you
could create them ...)



On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, John Janmaat wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I am creating a graph in a loop, and want to use letters for marking
> symbols.  Is there a function to convert an integer into a character.  I
> am looking for something similar to the ASC() function of good old
> BASIC, or the (char) type conversion of C.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John.
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