numdec {admisc}

Count number of decimals

Description

Calculates the (maximum) number of decimals in a possibly numeric vector.

Usage

numdec(x, each = FALSE, na.rm = TRUE, maxdec = 15)

Arguments

x

A vector of values

each

Logical, return the result for each value in the vector

na.rm

Logical, ignore missing values

maxdec

Maximal number of decimals to count

Author(s)

Adrian Dusa

Examples

x <- c(12, 12.3, 12.34)

numdec(x) # 2

numdec(x, each = TRUE) # 0, 1, 2

x <- c("-.1", " 2.75 ", "12", "B", NA)

numdec(x) # 2

numdec(x, each = TRUE) # 1, 2, 0, NA, NA