Formatting Currencies in R

Here are a few ways to format numbers in R for presentations. A few of theme can be accomplished using the paste function in R. I’ve found that there are a few different methods to do this. Using the scales package Using the scales packages from Hadley, there is a great function with various options including passing a vector. library(scales) dollar_format()(c(-100, 0.23, 1.456565, 2e3)) Formatting currency with separator Following is a simple function one can build and place in their utility function that will give formatted currency....

August 21, 2018 · 1 min · 98 words · Chris Ried