Convert character string with Dollar signs and commas to numerics
as.numeric of character strings after
suppressing commas and dollar signs. This is
a special case of parseCommas.
parseDollars(x, pattern='\\$|,',
replacement='', ...)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. a character vector
##
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
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