Conversion of text representing a number to a valid number
hsChrToNum(x, country, stopOnError = TRUE)
x | (vector of) text value(s) to be converted to numeric |
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country | "en" if value(s) in x is (are) given in English format (decimal point ".", thousands separator ",") or "de" if value is given in German format (decimal point ",", thousands separator "."). |
stopOnError | if TRUE (default) the program stops if any of the given values could not be converted. |
vector of numeric(s). In case of conversion the function stops (if
stopOnError = TRUE
) or returns NA
for those indices for which
the conversion failed. In the latter case an attribute "errorIndices"
containing the corresponding indices is assigned to the result vector.