Thanks for all your help.  I did it this way:

> x = sapply(cnt_str,deparse)
> x
       \002        \001        \002
"\"\\002\"" "\"\\001\"" "\"\\102\""
> as.numeric(substr(x,3,5))
[1]   2   1 102

...which is a bit of a hack, but gets me where I want to go.

Thanks,
Ben

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan@gmail.com>wrote:

> On 08/06/2012 1:50 PM, Peter Langfelder wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:25 AM, David Winsemius<dwinsemius@comcast.**net<dwinsemius@comcast.net>>
>>  wrote:
>> >
>> >  On Jun 8, 2012, at 1:11 PM, Ben quant wrote:
>> >
>> >>  Hello,
>> >>
>> >>  How do I change this:
>> >>>
>> >>>  cnt_str
>> >>
>> >>  [1] "\002" "\001" "\102"
>> >>
>> >>  ...to this:
>> >>>
>> >>>  cnt_str
>> >>
>> >>  [1] "2" "1" "102"
>> >>
>> >>  Having trouble because of this:
>> >>>
>> >>>  nchar(cnt_str[1])
>> >>
>> >>  [1] 1
>> >
>> >
>> >  "\001" is ASCII cntrl-A, a single character.
>> >
>> >  ?Quotes   # not the first, second or third place I looked but I knew I
>> had
>> >  seen it before.
>>
>> If you still want to obtain the actual codes, you will be able to get
>> the number using utf8ToInt from package base or AsciiToInt from
>> package sfsmisc. By default, the integer codes will be printed in base
>> 10, though.
>>
>
> You could use
>
> > as.octmode(as.integer(**charToRaw("\102")))
> [1] "102"
>
> if you really want the octal versions.  Doesn't work so well on "\1022"
> though (because that's two characters long).
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
>> A roundabout way, assuming your are on a *nix system, would be to
>> dump() cnt_str into a file, say tmp.txt, then run in a shell (or using
>> system() ) something like
>>
>> sed --in-place 's/\\//g' tmp.txt
>>
>> to remove the slashes, then use
>>
>> cnt_str_new = read.table("tmp.txt")
>>
>> in R to get the codes back in. I'll let you iron out the details.
>>
>> Peter
>>
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