on 11/24/2008 08:57 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all
>
> If I have a string, say "ABCDA", and I want to convert this to the sum of the
> letter values, e.g.
>
> A -> 1
> B -> 2
>
> etc, so "ABCDA" = 1+2+3+4+1 = 11
>
> Is there an elegant way to do this? Trying something like
>
> which(LETTERS %in% unlist(strsplit("ABCDA", "")))
> is not quite correct, as it does not count repeated characters. I guess what
> I need is some kind of lookup table?
>
> Cheers
> Rory
> sum(as.numeric(factor(unlist(strsplit("ABCDA", "")))))
[1] 11
Convert the letters to factors, after splitting the vector, which then
enables the use of the underlying numeric codes:
> as.numeric(factor(unlist(strsplit("ABCDA", ""))))
[1] 1 2 3 4 1
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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