How to assign values to string when the data is very large R [duplicate]

Question

How to assign values to string when the data is very large.

Currently I assign values to character vectors manually as illustrated below, however, when the amount of data is very large it becomes tedious to do that process manually. Is there a function that allows me to do it?

c("a" = 100, "b" = 200, "c"=300, ..., "aaaaaa" = n)

Answer 1

Is there any particular meaning to your numbering? If you just need numerical values for strings, you can use as.factor and as.numeric as outlined in this post:

R: Encode character variables into numeric

However, if you need a specific encoding you will have specify the associated labels necessary; there isn't enough information in your question to help with this further, but the documentation is here:

https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/base/versions/3.6.2/topics/factor