You can get pretty close with label_number_si(): pounds <- scales::label_number_si(prefix = "£") pounds(10 ^ (0:7)) #> [1] "£1" "£10" "£100" "£1K" "£10K" "£100K" "£1M" "£10M"
<sup>Created on 2019-12-09 by the [reprex package](https://reprex.tidyverse.org) (v0.3.0.9001)</sup> Hadley On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 5:51 AM POLWART, Calum (COUNTY DURHAM AND DARLINGTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST) via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > > I'm writing a quite large document in Rmarkdown which has financial data in > it. I format that data using scales::dollar() currently something like this: > > > > > require (scales) > > x = 100000 > > cat (dollar (x, prefix ="£", big.mark=",")) > > £100,000 > > But actually, I'd quite like to get £100k out in that instance so I'd do: > > > cat (dollar (x/10^3, prefix ="£", suffix="k" )) > > £100k > > But x could be 100 or 10,000,000. I want some form of 'automatic' version > that might give me something like: > > > > > require (scales) > > y = 0:7 > > x = 1^y > > dollar(x, prefix="£") > [1] "£1" "£10" "£100" "£1,000" "£10,000" > "£100,000" "£1,000,000" "£10,000,000" > > But what I want is more like: > > £1.00 £10.00 £100 £1k £10k £100k £1m £10m > > I'm sure I can write something as a little function, but before I do - is > there something already out there? > > I have a similar need to format milligrams through to kilograms. > > > ******************************************************************************************************************** > > This message may contain confidential information. If ...{{dropped:27}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
