sanitizePercent: Sanitize percentage

In acidgenomics/pipette: Pipette Biological Data In and Out of R

Sanitize percentage

Description

Take a character vector of percentages (e.g. "50%") and convert it to a numeric vector (e.g. 0.5).

Usage

sanitizePercent(object, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'atomic'
sanitizePercent(object)

## S4 method for signature 'character'
sanitizePercent(object)

Arguments

object	Object.
...	Additional arguments.

Value

Modified object. All percentage strings containing "%" (e.g. "50%") are converted to numeric proportions (e.g. 0.5).

Intended usage

This function is designed primarily to sanitize data imported from Microsoft Excel.

Note

Updated 2019-10-12.

Examples

## character ====
object <- c("100%", "10.0%", "1%", "0.1%", "0.01%")
object <- sanitizePercent(object)
class(object)
print(object)

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