I need to translate a string of characters, for example \"Hello\", into a string of numbers which is the ASCII numeric codes.
\"Hello\"
Example: 0 -> 48
0 -> 48
I guess you mean utf8ToInt, see the R manuals:
utf8ToInt
utf8ToInt("Hello") # [1] 72 101 108 108 111
Or, if you want a mapping of the letters to their codes:
sapply(strsplit("Hello", NULL)[[1L]], utf8ToInt) # H e l l o # 72 101 108 108 111