Hi Dimitris,
thank you very much for your quick an efficient help! Your solution is
perfect for me. Does exactly what I was looking for if combined with
unlist and as.numeric before using sum.
Now I can keep on with my real problem ;)...
Thanx Again!!!
Best, Felix
Am 04.03.2011 14:25, schrieb Dimitris Rizopoulos:
> one way is using function strsplit(), e.g.,
>
> x <- c("100100110", "1001001", "1101", "00101")
> sapply(strsplit(x, ""), function (x) sum(x == 1))
>
>
> I hope it helps.
>
> Best,
> Dimitris
>
>
> On 3/4/2011 2:18 PM, drflxms wrote:
>> Dear R colleagues,
>>
>> I face a seemingly simple problem I couldn't find a solution for myself
>> so far:
>>
>> I have to sum the digits of numbers. Example: 1010 ->2 100100110 -> 4
>> Unfortunately there seems not to be a function for this task. So my idea
>> was to use sum(x) for it. But I did not figure out how to slice a number
>> to a vector of its digits. Example (continued from above): 1010 ->
>> c(1,0,1,0) 100100110 -> (1,0,0,1,0,0,1,1,0).
>>
>> Does anyone know either a function for calculating the sum of the digits
>> of a bumber, or how to slice a number into a vector of its digits as
>> described above?
>>
>> I'd appreciate any kind of help very much!
>> Thanx in advance and greetings from cloudy Munich,
>> Felix
>>
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