On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Try this:
>
>> library(tcltk)
>> as.numeric(tcl("string", "reverse", 123))
> [1] 321
The bit where the original poster said 'unknown length' worried me:
> as.numeric(tcl("string", "reverse", 12377656534))
[1] 0.4356568
> as.numeric(paste(rev(strsplit(as.character(1234567890123727723),"")[[1]]),collapse=""))
[1] 6.167273e+18
As well as the use of the word 'number' - both solutions give NA for
negative integers and various things for decimals...
Just a bit of Sunday morning pedantry for you :)
Barry
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