rSymPy (http://rsympy.googlecode.com) can do that:
> library(rSymPy) Loading required package: rJava > sympy("hex(12345)") [1] "0x3039" > format.hexmode(as.numeric(12345)) [1] "3039" > sympy("hex(6595137340052185552)") [1] "0x5b86a277deb9a1d0L" as can r-bc package (http://r-bc.googlecode.com - not on CRAN). On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Sundar Dorai-Raj <sdorai...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.