char2number: Converts a string to a number by character substitution

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Usage

char2number(init.string, chars.list = "NULL", num.list = "NULL",
  mod.machine.int = FALSE)

Arguments

init.string	character string to be converted
chars.list	list of characters to be replaced. Default is c('a',...,'z','A',...,'Z')
num.list	list of numbers to replace characters in chars.list. Default is seq(from = 1, to = 52, by = 1)
mod.machine.int	bool to return the full number (default = FALSE) or the full number modulus the integer range of the machine (set to TRUE).

a string containing a number. Need to use as.numeric() Currently only supports a-zA-z and removes spaces char2number('a') char2number("Hello World")

bmarkslash7/bagoftricks documentation built on May 12, 2019, 10:24 p.m.