Format Number with Locale — format_number • pharmhand

Helper function to format a number with locale-aware decimal separator.

Usage

format_number(
  x,
  digits = 2L,
  locale = get_locale(),
  trim = FALSE,
  na_string = getOption("pharmhand.na_string", "NA")
)

Arguments

x: Numeric value
digits: Integer number of decimal places
locale: Character locale: "en" (period) or "de" (comma)
trim: Logical, if TRUE remove trailing zeros (default: FALSE)
na_string: String for missing values (default: getOption("pharmhand.na_string", "NA"))

Value

Character formatted number

Examples

format_number(1234.567, 2, "en")
#> [1] "1234.57"
# [1] "1234.57"

format_number(1234.567, 2, "de")
#> [1] "1234,57"
# [1] "1234,57"