rmongodb (version 1.8.0)

mongo.oid.to.string: Convert a mongo.oid object to a string

Description

Convert a mongo.oid object to a string of 24 hex digits. This performs the inverse operation of mongo.oid.from.string().

Usage

mongo.oid.to.string(oid)

Arguments

oid

(mongo.oid) The OID to be converted.

Value

(string) A string of 24 hex digits representing the bits of oid.

Details

This function is an alias of as.character.mongo.oid() which you may perfer to use since the class mechanism of R allows that to be called simply by as.character(oid).

See http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Object+IDs

See Also

mongo.oid, mongo.oid.create, as.character.mongo.oid, mongo.oid.from.string, mongo.bson.buffer.append, mongo.bson.buffer.append.oid, mongo.bson.buffer, mongo.bson.

Examples

oid <- mongo.oid.create()
print(mongo.oid.to.string(oid))
print(as.character(oid))  # print same thing as above line