R to convert numeric (23) to English ("twenty three")

Question

Is there a function R that converts numeric values to their English representation? It will work as follows:

> to.words(5)
[1] "five"
> to.words(23)
[1] "twenty-three"

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Lorin hochstein Mar 15 '11 at 1:13

3 answers

Here was an example function for small numbers given in R-help:

And another (which seems more complete), published by John Fox in the 5/1 news volume R, starting on page 51. The function itself is page 53:

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juba Mar 15 '11 at 8:40

number2words, " ?" The Volume 5/1, May 2005 RNews ( ) - , .

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Paolo 15 . '11 8:48

Tyler rinker · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-05T19:57:03+0000

Now the package english:

library(english)

english(5)
english(23)

## > english(23)
## [1] twenty three
## > english(23)
## [1] twenty three