Thanks for your advice. Unfortunately, your answers are inconsistent: as.numeric("0x1AF0") returns a decimal value for a hex string. I'd like to do the opposite-use hex notation to represent a decimal. e.g. x<-0x000A y<-0x0001 x+y=0x00B Cheers.
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 08:45, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Steve Vejcik wrote: > > > Hello world: > > Has anyone used hex notation within R to represents integers? > > That's a spectacularly vague question. Short answer: yes. > > > as.numeric("0x1AF0") > [1] 6896 > > (which BTW is system-dependent, but one person used it as you asked). > > PLEASE read the posting guide and try for a `smarter' question. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html