ordinal: Ordinal Numbers

Description

Returns the appropriate abbreviation in English for an ordinal number (for example ordinal(5) is "5th").

Usage

ordinal(k)
ordinalsuffix(k)

Arguments

An integer or vector of integers.

Value

A character string or character vector of the same length as k.

Details

ordinal(k) returns a character string representing the kth ordinal number. ordinalsuffix(k) determines the appropriate suffix.

The suffix can be either "st" (abbreviating first), "nd" (abbreviating second), "rd" (abbreviating third) or "th" (for all other ordinal numbers fourth, fifth, etc).

Examples

Run this code

# NOT RUN {
  ordinal(1:7)
  cat(paste("Happy", ordinal(21), "Birthday"), fill=TRUE)
# }