[R] extract the digits of a number

[Christos Hatzis]

An alternative that works for any base (other than 10) is the following:

> library(sfsmisc)
> digitsBase(1001, 10)
Class 'basedInt'(base = 10) [1:1]
     [,1]
[1,]    1
[2,]    0
[3,]    0
[4,]    1

-Christos

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Gustavo Carvalho
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 12:49 PM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] extract the digits of a number
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Anyone knows how can I do this in a cleaner way?
> 
> mynumber = 1001
> as.numeric(unlist(strsplit(as.character(mynumber),"")))
> [1] 1 0 0 1
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Gustavo
> 
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