format_number: Format Number

In tonofshell/cowpoke: Functions For Simplified Data Wrangling

Description

Formats numeric vectors, rounding values to a reasonable amount of digits, and inserting separators for large numbers. Useful for inserting inline numeric values in R Markdown.

Usage

format_number(x, round_digits = c(3, 2, 1, 0), large_num_sep = ",")

Arguments

x	A numeric vector
round_digits	The number of digits to round numbers at each cutoff (< 1, < 10, < 100, >= 100). Default value is 3, 2, 1, 0.
large_num_sep	A character to separate every three digits in large numbers. Default value is the American standard of using a comma (",").

Value

A character vector

Examples

format_number(pi * c(0.1, 1, 10, 100, 1000))
"0.314" "3.14"  "31.4"  "314"   "3,142"

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