str2num {fritools} | R Documentation |
If you read text containing (possibly German, i.e. the decimals separated by comma and dots inserted for what they think of as readability) numbers, you may want to convert them to numeric.
str2num(x)
x |
A string representing a (possibly German) number. |
The number as a numeric.
Other bits and pieces:
golden_ratio()
,
is_difftime_less()
,
is_valid_primary_key()
,
r_cmd_install()
,
strip_off_attributes()
,
tapply()
,
throw()
line_in_text <- "foo bar 10.303,70 foo bar 1.211.000,55 foo bar"
words <- unlist(strsplit(line_in_text, split = " "))
print(na.omit(sapply(words, str2num)), digits = 9)
print(str2num(words[c(3, 4, 7)]), digits = 9)
print(str2num(words[7]), digits = 9)