On Feb 5, 2014, at 12:53 AM, Rolf Turner wrote:
>
>
> And the winner is ....... (drum roll) ....... DAVID WINSEMIUS!!!
>
> Thank you hugely David. You have completely solved my problem.
> The last bit with format.hexmode() so as to get "00A3" rather than
> just "a3" was actually unnecessary; I could've lived with "a3". But it was a
> nice bit of polish.
>
> How you manage to find the relevant functions in the bewildering (to me)
> superabundance of functions is impressive as well as astonishing.
I have in the past found `as.hexmode` (which I learned after needing as.octmode
as part of my efforts to understand plotmath and using symbol fonts) to be very
useful so I did not need to do anything more than "?as.hexmode". I got to the
help page for `utf8ToInt` by way of the links on the ?Encodings page. I can
never remember the names of all these functions either. I just follow links in
the help system until I get what I need.
--
David.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> cheers,
>
> Rolf
>
> On 05/02/14 19:07, David Winsemius wrote:
>>
>> 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 Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA
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