qdap (version 2.4.6)

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)

Value

Returns a vector with abbreviations replaced.

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.

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

if (FALSE) {
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)
}