[R] Convert ASCII string to Decimal in R (vice versa) was: Hex

Dieter Menne dieter.menne at menne-biomed.de
Mon Dec 22 11:01:02 CET 2008


Gundala Viswanath <gundalav <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Sorry my mistake. I wanted to convert them
> into Decimal (not Hexadecimal).
> 
> Given this string, the desired answer follows:
> 
> > ascii_str  <- "ORQ>IK"
> 79 82 81 62 73 75
> 
> > ascii_str2 <- "FDC"
> 70 68 67
> 

 lapply("ABCD",charToRaw)[[1]]

Dieter



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