Formatting Numbers in R Markdown Documents

Provides a small set of tools for formatting numbers in R markdown documents (file type .Rmd or .qmd). Converts a numerical vector to character strings in power-of-ten form, decimal form, or measurement-units form; all are math-delimited within quotation marks for rendering as inline equations. Useful for rendering numerical scalars using inline R code chunks or for rendering numerical columns in tables.

Introduction

In professional technical prose, large and small numbers are generally typeset using powers of ten notation. For example, Planck’s constant would be typeset as