Hi darkhorn, Here are two suggestions: # Suggestion 1 z <- 78923698701 foo <- function(x, pos) strsplit(as.character(x),"")[[1]][pos] foo(z,2) # [1] "8"
# Suggestion 2 foo2 <- function(x, pos) substr(x,pos,pos) foo2(z,2) # [1] "8" See ?strsplit and ?substr for more details. HTH, Jorge On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 6:16 PM, darkhorn <darkh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a huge number such as 78923698701 > z<-78923698701 > I want to find the integer of a given location, for example here, what is > the 2nd number? 8. > > Thanks in advance! > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/the-integer-of-a-given-location-tp25418729p25418729.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
