Hi, I'm wondering if someone has solved the problem of converting very large integers to hex. I know about format.hexmode and as.hexmode, but these rely on integers. The numbers I'm working with are overflowing and losing precision. Here's an example:
x <- "6595137340052185552" # stored as character as.integer(x) # warning about inaccurate conversion format.hexmode(as.numeric(x)) # warnings about loss of precision as.hexmode(x) # more warnings and does not do what I expected I'm planning on writing a function that will do this, but would like to know if anybody already has a solution. Basically, I would like the functionality of format.hexmode on arbitrarily large integers. Thanks, --sundar ______________________________________________ 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.
