Using stars to indicate rejected values

If a template uses the convention of putting a star in front of or behind numbers that should be rejected for further use then the function star_to_number() can be used to convert the variable to a number. The function has_star() checks whether a string has a star. It can be used to generate a logical vector indicating accepted/rejected values.

Usage

star_to_number(x)

has_star(x)

Arguments

x

A character vector

Value

Function star_to_number() returns a numeric vector, has_star() returns a logical vector.