Josef Eschgfaeller wrote:
Is there a proper function for transforming
a character to a number instead of using
i=match('c',letters)
# 3
I'd suggest to use the above if you really mean it. Note that
"transforming a character to a number" is not well defined, because you
have to think about encodings and characters at first. See the article
by Brian Ripley in the most recent issue of R News, for example.
Uwe Ligges
Thanks.
Josef Eschgf�ller
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