i <- charToInt(unlist(strsplit("Hello world!", split=NULL)))
# Gives: 72 101 108 108 111 32 119 111 114 108 100 33
ch <- intToChar(c(72,101,108,108,111,32,119,111,114,108,100,33))
# Gives: "H" "e" "l" "l" "o" " " "w" "o" "r" "l" "d" "!"
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