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Style percentages

Usage

style_percent(
  x,
  symbol = FALSE,
  digits = 0,
  big.mark = ifelse(decimal.mark == ",", " ", ","),
  decimal.mark = getOption("OutDec"),
  ...
)

Arguments

x

numeric vector of percentages

symbol

Logical indicator to include percent symbol in output. Default is FALSE.

digits

number of digits to round large percentages (i.e. greater than 10%). Smaller percentages are rounded to digits + 1 places. Default is 0

big.mark

(string)
Character used between every 3 digits to separate hundreds/thousands/millions/etc. Default is ",", except when decimal.mark = "," when the default is a space.

decimal.mark

(string)
The character to be used to indicate the numeric decimal point. Default is "." or getOption("OutDec")

...

Arguments passed on to base::format()

Value

A character vector of styled percentages

Author

Daniel D. Sjoberg

Examples

percent_vals <- c(-1, 0, 0.0001, 0.005, 0.01, 0.10, 0.45356, 0.99, 1.45)
style_percent(percent_vals)
#> [1] NA     "0"    "<0.1" "0.5"  "1.0"  "10"   "45"   "99"   "145" 
style_percent(percent_vals, symbol = TRUE, digits = 1)
#> [1] NA       "0%"     "0.01%"  "0.50%"  "1.00%"  "10.0%"  "45.4%"  "99.0%" 
#> [9] "145.0%"