On Feb 4, 2014, at 8:56 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
>
> On Feb 4, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> If I have a character such as "£" stored in a object called "xxx", how can I
>> obtain the hex code representation of this character? In this case I know
>> that the hex code is "\u00A3", but if I didn't, how would I find out?
>>
>> I would like a function "foo()" such that foo(xxx) would return, say, the
>> string "00A3".
>>
>
> Close:
>
>> as.hexmode(utf8ToInt("£"))
> [1] "a3"
>
Looking at the help page again I realized that there was a `format.hexmode` to
deliver as requested:
> format(as.hexmode(utf8ToInt("£")), width=4, upper=TRUE)
[1] "00A3"
--
David.
>
>> I have googled and otherwise searched around and have come up with nothing
>> that seemed at all helpful to me. If I am missing something obvious, please
>> point me at it.
>>
>> (I have found a table on the web, which contains the information that I
>> need, but it is only accessible "by eye" as far as I can discern.)
>>
>> Supplementary question: Suppose I have the string "00A3" stored in
>> an object called "yyy".
>
>
>> intToUtf8(as.hexmode('00A3'))
> [1] "£"
>
>
>> How do I put that string together with "\u"
>> so as to obtain "£"? I thought I could do
>>
>> xxx <- paste("\u",yyy,sep="")
>>
>> but R won't let me use "\u" "without hex digits". How can I get around this?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Rolf Turner
>>
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> David Winsemius
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