Hi darkhorn,
Here are two suggestions:

# Suggestion 1
z <- 78923698701
foo <- function(x, pos) strsplit(as.character(x),"")[[1]][pos]
foo(z,2)
# [1] "8"

# Suggestion 2
foo2 <- function(x, pos) substr(x,pos,pos)
foo2(z,2)
# [1] "8"

See ?strsplit and ?substr for more details.

HTH,
Jorge

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 6:16 PM, darkhorn <darkhorn@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I have a huge number such as 78923698701
> z<-78923698701
> I want to find the integer of a given location, for example here, what is
> the 2nd number? 8.
>
> Thanks in advance!
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