for e.g., I get the following as a string vector
"int" "4" "5" "6"
after reading the first element, I have to convert this to a integer vector
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 6:44 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>wrote:
>
> On Sep 5, 2010, at 8:48 AM, rajesh j wrote:
>
> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to convert a string vector to integer or numeric vector? In
>> my situation I receive data in a string vector and have to convert it
>> based
>> on a given type.
>>
>
> Can you give an example? I don't understand either what sort of conversion
> you desire or what you mean by "convert it based on a given type."
>
> There are a couple of function you may want to consider but I am having
> difficulty convincing myself they answer the problem posed:
>
> ?charToRaw
> ?stroi
>
> > strtoi(charToRaw("123 this is a string"), base=16) # convert to decimal
> ASCII
> [1] 49 50 51 32 116 104 105 115 32 105 115 32 97 32 115 116 114
> 105 110 103
>
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>
> David Winsemius, MD
> West Hartford, CT
>
>
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Rajesh.J
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