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################ numbers2words ###################
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numbers2words <- function(x, billion = c("US", "UK"), and = if (billion == "US") "" else "and") {
## Description:
## Converts a number into its corresponding words in English
## == THIS FUNCTION WAS PUBLISHED IN: R-News, vol 5, iss 1, May 2005, pp. 51
## == Original author: John Fox
## == Department of Sociology
## == McMaster University
## == Hamilton, Ontario
## == Canada L8S 4M4
## == 905-525-9140x23604
## == http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
## == http://cran.csiro.au/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2005-1.pdf
## == http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/46843.html
## Usage:
## numbers2words(number, billion-word, and-or-not)
## Arguments:
## x: number
## billion: follow either US or UK usage rules
## and: follows the choice set in billion arg
## Value:
## Dataframe with the following columns:
## $ sampleid : chr
#
billion <- match.arg(billion)
trim <- function(text) {
gsub("(^\ *)|((\ *|-|,\ zero|-zero)$)", "", text)
}
makeNumber <- function(x) as.numeric(paste(x, collapse = ""))
makeDigits <- function(x) strsplit(as.character(x), "")[[1]]
helper <- function(x) {
negative <- x < 0
x <- abs(x)
digits <- makeDigits(x)
nDigits <- length(digits)
result <- if (nDigits == 1) as.vector(ones[digits])
else if (nDigits == 2)
if (x <= 19) as.vector(teens[digits[2]])
else trim(paste(tens[digits[1]], "-", ones[digits[2]], sep=""))
else if (nDigits == 3) {
tail <- makeNumber(digits[2:3])
if (tail == 0) paste(ones[digits[1]], "hundred")
else trim(paste(ones[digits[1]], trim(paste("hundred", and)),
helper(tail)))
} else {
nSuffix <- ((nDigits + 2) %/% 3) - 1
if (nSuffix > length(suffixes) || nDigits > 15)
stop(paste(x, "is too large!"))
pick <- 1:(nDigits - 3 * nSuffix)
trim(paste(helper(makeNumber(digits[pick])), suffixes[nSuffix], helper(makeNumber(digits[-pick]))))
}
if (billion == "UK") {
words <- strsplit(result, " ")[[1]]
if (length(grep("million,", words)) > 1)
result <- sub(" million, ", ", ", result)
}
if (negative) paste("minus", result) else result
}
opts <- options(scipen = 100)
on.exit(options(opts))
ones <- c("zero", "one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven", "eight", "nine")
teens <- c("ten", "eleven", "twelve", "thirteen", "fourteen", "fifteen", "sixteen", " seventeen", "eighteen", "nineteen")
names(ones) <- names(teens) <- 0:9
tens <- c("twenty", "thirty", "forty", "fifty", "sixty", "seventy", "eighty", "ninety")
names(tens) <- 2:9
suffixes <- if (billion == "US") {
c("thousand,", "million,", "billion,", "trillion,")
} else {
c("thousand,", "million,", "thousand million,", "billion,")
}
x <- round(x)
if (length(x) > 1) sapply(x, helper) else helper(x)
}