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Peter Lauren

2006-Nov-13 21:31 UTC

[R] Converting Character Strings to Numerical Values

Does R have anything like strtod, atoi, atod, etc. in
C?  I would like to covert "3" to 3 and "3.5" to 3.5 .

Thanks,
Peter Lauren.

Sarah Goslee

2006-Nov-13 21:40 UTC

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[R] Converting Character Strings to Numerical Values

?as.numeric
> x <- "3"
> y <- "3.5"
> x
[1] "3"> as.numeric(x)[1] 3
> y
[1] "3.5"> as.numeric(y)[1] 3.5

Sarah

On 11/13/06, Peter Lauren <peterdlauren at yahoo.com>
wrote:> Does R have anything like strtod, atoi, atod, etc. in
> C?  I would like to covert "3" to 3 and "3.5" to 3.5 .
>
> Thanks,
> Peter Lauren.
>
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R help - Nov 2006 - Converting Character Strings to Numerical Values

[R] Converting Character Strings to Numerical Values

[R] Converting Character Strings to Numerical Values