indefinite: Add Indefinite Article

In english: Translate Integers into English

Description

Adds an initial indefinite article "a" or "an" to a numerical object expressed either as digits or as words in the result. The capitalized form, Initial, capitalizes the initial letter: "An" or "A".

Usage

indefinite(n, ...)

## S3 method for class 'numeric'
indefinite(n, words = TRUE, ...)

## S3 method for class 'english'
indefinite(n, words = TRUE, ...)

## S3 method for class 'ordinal'
indefinite(n, ...)

## S3 method for class 'character'
indefinite(n, ...)

Indefinite(n, ...)

Arguments

n	either a numeric vector or a ordinal character string.
...	Extra arguments, currently ignored
words	logical: should the numbers be expressed as words (TRUE) or digits (FALSE)?

Value

A character string vector with an article prepended, either capitalized or not.

Examples

indefinite(1:12)
paste0(Indefinite(1:12, FALSE), "-stage process")
cat(paste(Indefinite(ordinal(1:10)), " point is ...\n", sep = ""))

english documentation built on Aug. 21, 2021, 9:07 a.m.