as_num: Coerce character to numeric

In vbfelix/relper: Miscellaneous Functions for Data Preparation, Cleaning, and Visualization

Coerce character to numeric

Description

Coerce a character vector to numeric, by:

- Removing the thousand separator mark.
- Replacing decimal mark with a dot.
- Removing the character "$".
- Removing the characters from the alphabet.
- Trimming extra spaces.
- Applying the function as.numeric.

Usage

as_num(x, thousand_mark = "\\.", decimal_mark = "\\,")

Arguments

x	A character vector
thousand_mark	A character single value to use as the thousand mark (default = '\ \.')
decimal_mark	A character single value to use as the decimal mark (default = '\ \,')

Value

A numeric vector.

Examples

x <- "10.000,50"

as_num(x)

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