as.numeric with comma decimal separators?

Question

I have a large vector of strings of the form:

Input = c(\"1,223\", \"12,232\", \"23,0\")

etc. That\'s to say, decimals separated by commas,

Answer 1

The readr package has a function to parse numbers from strings. You can set many options via the locale argument.

For comma as decimal separator you can write:

readr::parse_number(Input, locale = readr::locale(decimal_mark = ","))