Thousands formatter: format number with commas separating the number thousands and suffixed with a k.

Based heavily on the scales work by Hadley

Usage

thousands_format()

thousands(x)

Arguments

x

a numeric vector to format

Value

a function with single paramater x, a numeric vector, that returns a character vector

See also

Other helper: CJ.dt(), convertToXML(), generatePDF(), pounds_format(), sanitise(), wordwrap()

Examples

thousands_format()(c(1, 1e3, 2000, 1e6))
#> [1] "0k"     "1k"     "2k"     "1,000k"
thousands_format()(c(1, 1e3, 2000, 1e6))
#> [1] "0k"     "1k"     "2k"     "1,000k"
thousands(c(1, 1e3, 2000, 1e6))
#> [1] "0k"     "1k"     "2k"     "1,000k"