Help formating data to display commas

When I try this all I get is NULL

Chris Anderson
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-----Original Message-----
From: Henrique Dallazuanna [mailto:wwwhsd at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 11:45 AM
To: Anderson, Chris
Cc: r-help at R-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Help formating data to display commas

Try this:

gsub("\\s", "", format(upper, big.mark = ","))

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Anderson, Chris
<chris.anderson at paradigmcorp.com> wrote:

I'm using the following code to create quartile intervals of my dataset and it is working like it is suppose too. In my final output of the data I would like currency amounts to be displayed with commas. I have not found an option either through FormatC or sprintf that will display the data with commas, they only seem to add decimals. Is there a format that will display commas without me reverting to the labels statement. ?This is an ongoing process where the values are updated, so using the labels statement would be too much to manage.


Benchparaq<-levels(quantcut(benchmarkPara$Benchmark_Total, q=seq(0,1,by=0.25), na.rm=TRUE))

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?#,labels=c("$267,000-<$436,000","$436,000-<$559,000","$559,000-<$836,000","$836,000-<$1,590,000"))
lower <-as.numeric(sub("\\((.+),.*", "\\1", Benchparaq))

Warning: NAs introduced by coercion

upper <- as.numeric(sub("[^,]*,([^]]*)\\]", "\\1", Benchparaq))
lower<-ifelse(is.na(lower),0,as.numeric(lower))
upper<-ifelse(is.na(upper),0,as.numeric(upper))
lower

[1] ? ? ?0 436000 559000 836000

upper

[1] ?436000 ?559000 ?836000 1590000

Benchparaq<-paste("$",lower,"-<","$",upper,sep="")
? lower<-NULL
? upper<-NULL
Benchparaq

[1] "$0-<$436000" ? ? ? "$436000-<$559000" ?"$559000-<$836000" ?"$836000-<$1590000"


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