qdap (version 2.4.1)

replace_number: Replace Numbers With Text Representation

Description

Replaces numeric represented numbers with words (e.g., 1001 becomes one thousand one).

Usage

replace_number(text.var, num.paste = TRUE, remove = FALSE)

Arguments

text.var

The text variable.

num.paste

logical. If TRUE a the elements of larger numbers are separated with spaces. If FALSE the elements will be joined without spaces.

remove

logical. If TRUE numbers are removed from the text.

Value

Returns a vector with abbreviations replaced.

References

Fox, J. (2005). Programmer's niche: How do you spell that number? R News. Vol. 5(1), pp. 51-55.

See Also

bracketX, qprep, replace_abbreviation, replace_contraction, replace_symbol, replace_ordinal

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
x <- c("I like 346,457 ice cream cones.", "They are 99 percent good")
y <- c("I like 346457 ice cream cones.", "They are 99 percent good")
replace_number(x)
replace_number(y)
replace_number(x, FALSE)
replace_number(x, remove=TRUE)
# }

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