[R] sprintf("%c",...)

[Uwe Ligges]

Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> How does one get the character that corresponds to a number?  Also
> the inverse?
> 
> The %c format code is not supported by the R sprintf function and I
> could not find another way to do it.
> 
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The ASCII character table:

ascii <- sapply(1:255, function(i)
   parse(text=paste("\"\\", structure(i, class = "octmode"), "\"",
     sep = ""))[[1]])

Uwe Ligges