replace_number: Replace Numbers With Text Representation

In trinker/qdap: Bridging the Gap Between Qualitative Data and Quantitative Analysis

Description

Replaces numeric represented numbers with words (e.g., 1001 becomes one thousand one).

Usage

replace_number(text.var, num.paste = TRUE, remove = FALSE)

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.

Value

Returns a vector with abbreviations replaced.

Note

The user may want to use replace_ordinal first to remove ordinal number notation. For example replace_number would turn "21st" into "twenty onest", whereas replace_ordinal would generate "twenty first".

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

## Not run: 
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)

## End(Not run)

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