Re: [R] Subsetting a large number into smaller numbers and find the largest product

2013-04-18 Thread arun
    0 12096  1400   864 0  1620 #[37] 0   360 0  2100 A.K. - Original Message - From: Janesh Devkota To: groep R-help Cc: Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 4:47 AM Subject: [R] Subsetting a large number into smaller numbers and find the largest product Hello, I have a big nu

Re: [R] Subsetting a large number into smaller numbers and find the largest product

2013-04-18 Thread arun
#[37] 0   360 0  2100 A.K. - Original Message - From: Janesh Devkota To: groep R-help Cc: Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 4:47 AM Subject: [R] Subsetting a large number into smaller numbers and find the largest product Hello, I have a big number lets say of around hundred digits

Re: [R] Subsetting a large number into smaller numbers and find the largest product

2013-04-18 Thread andrija djurovic
Hi. Here is one approach: options(scipen=300) numb <- 73167176531330624919225119674426574742355349194934969835203127745063262395783180169848018694788518438586156078911294949545950173795833195285320880551112540698747158523863050715693290963295227443043557 strsplit(as.character(numb), "") blocks <-

Re: [R] Subsetting a large number into smaller numbers and find the largest product

2013-04-18 Thread Jorge I Velez
Dear Janesh, Here is one way: # note "x" is a character x <- "73167176531330624919225119674426574742355349194934969835203127745063262395783180169848018694788518438586156078911294949545950173795833195285320880551112540698747158523863050715693290963295227443043557" k <- nchar(x) # digits in x b <

Re: [R] Subsetting a large number into smaller numbers and find the largest product

2013-04-18 Thread Ted Harding
On 18-Apr-2013 08:47:18 Janesh Devkota wrote: > Hello, > > I have a big number lets say of around hundred digits. I want to subset > that big number into consecutive number of 5 digits and find the product of > those 5 digits. For example my first 5 digit number would be 73167. I need > to check

[R] Subsetting a large number into smaller numbers and find the largest product

2013-04-18 Thread Janesh Devkota
Hello, I have a big number lets say of around hundred digits. I want to subset that big number into consecutive number of 5 digits and find the product of those 5 digits. For example my first 5 digit number would be 73167. I need to check the product of the individual numbers in 73167 and so on.