Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) See Also Examples
as.numeric of character strings after suppressing commas and dollar
signs. This is a special case of parseCommas
.
1 | parseDollars(x, pattern='\\$|,', replacement='', ...)
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x |
vector of character strings to be converted to numerics |
pattern |
regular expression to be replaced by |
replacement |
Character string to substitute for each occurrence of |
... |
optional arguments to pass to |
as.numeric(gsub(x, ...)). See also parseCommas
.
Numeric vector converted from x
.
Spencer Graves
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 | ##
## 1. a character vector
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X2 <- c('-$2,500', '$5,000.50')
x2 <- parseDollars(X2)
all.equal(x2, c(-2500, 5000.5))
##
## A data.frame
##
chDF <- data.frame(let=letters[1:2], Dol=X2, dol=x2)
numDF <- parseCommas(chDF)
chkDF <- chDF
chkDF$Dol <- x2
all.equal(numDF, chkDF)
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