Parse numbers, flexibly — parse_number • cellist

This drops any non-numeric characters before or after the first number. The grouping mark specified by the locale is ignored inside the number.

parse_number(x, na = c("", "NA"), locale = default_locale(),
  trim_ws = TRUE)

Arguments

x	Character vector of values to parse.

See also

Other parsers: parse_factor, parse_guess, parse_logical

Examples

parse_number("$1000")
#> Error in warn_problems(parse_vector_(x, collector, na = na, locale_ = locale,     trim_ws = trim_ws)): could not find function "warn_problems"
parse_number("1,234,567.78")
#> Error in warn_problems(parse_vector_(x, collector, na = na, locale_ = locale,     trim_ws = trim_ws)): could not find function "warn_problems"