Message-ID: <429731EA.8070601@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 2005-05-27T14:42:50Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: Chars as numbers
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0505271608510.20103@dns.unife.it>
Josef Eschgfaeller wrote:
>
> Is there a proper function for transforming
> a character to a number instead of using
>
> i=match('c',letters)
> # 3
I'd suggest to use the above if you really mean it. Note that
"transforming a character to a number" is not well defined, because you
have to think about encodings and characters at first. See the article
by Brian Ripley in the most recent issue of R News, for example.
Uwe Ligges
> Thanks.
> Josef Eschgf??ller
>
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