Thanks, that's almost exactly what I need...theres just a slight
difference with my requirement, in that I am looking for the actual
index value in the alphabetical sequence, so that instead of:
as.numeric(factor(unlist(strsplit("XYZ",""))))
[1] 1 2 3
I would expect to see
[1] 24 25 26
How about this?
as.numeric(factor(unlist(strsplit("ECX", "")), levels=LETTERS))
Best regards,
Stefan Evert
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