optiRum (version 0.33)

pounds_format: Currency formatter: round to nearest penny and display pounds sign.

Description

The returned function will format a vector of values as currency. Values are rounded to the nearest penny, and pennies are displayed if any of the values has a non-zero pennies and the largest value is less than largest_with_penny which by default is 100000.

Usage

pounds_format(x, largest_with_penny = 1e+05)
pounds(x)

Arguments

largest_with_penny

the value that all values of x must be less than in order for the cents to be displayed

x

a numeric vector to format

Value

• a function with single paramater x, a numeric vector, that returns a character vector

Details

Based heavily on the scales work by Hadley

Examples

pounds_format()(c(100, 0.23, 1.456565, 2e3))
pounds_format()(c(1:10 * 10))
pounds(c(100, 0.23, 1.456565, 2e3))
pounds(c(1:10 * 10))
pounds(10^(1:8))