[R] hex format

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

[...]

> If you want an integer vector to always display in hex, assign a class to it 
> and define a print method.  I don't think there's a standard library function 
> to display in hex, but there are probably packages to do so.

In R 2.1.0-to-be

> x <- as.numeric("0x00B")  # this is platform-specific
> x
[1] 11
> sprintf("0x%X", as.integer(x))  # this is not
[1] "0xB"

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