# Number Names ones <- c("", "one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven", "eight", "nine", "ten", "eleven", "twelve", "thirteen", "fourteen", "fifteen", "sixteen", "seventeen", "eighteen", "nineteen") tens <- c("ten", "twenty", "thirty", "forty", "fifty", "sixty", "seventy", "eighty", "ninety") mags <- c("", "thousand", "million", "billion", "trillion", "quadrillion", "quintillion") return_hund <- function(input_number){ if (input_number == 0) return("") num_text <- as.character() input_hund <- trunc(input_number / 100) input_ten <- trunc((input_number - input_hund * 100) / 10) input_one <- input_number %% 10 if (input_number > 99) num_text <- paste0(ones[trunc(input_number / 100) + 1], "-hundred") if (input_ten < 2){ if (input_ten == 0 & input_one == 0) return(num_text) if (input_hund > 0) return(paste0(num_text, " ", ones[input_ten * 10 + input_one + 1])) return(paste0(ones[input_ten * 10 + input_one + 1])) } ifelse(input_hund > 0, num_text <- paste0(num_text, " ", tens[input_ten]), num_text <- paste0(tens[input_ten]) ) if (input_one != 0) num_text <- paste0(num_text, "-", ones[input_one + 1]) return(num_text) } make_number <- function(number){ if (number == 0) return("zero") a <- abs(number) num_text <- as.character() g <- trunc(log(a, 10)) + 1 for (i in c(seq(g, 1))){ b <- floor(a / 1000 ^ (i - 1)) x <- return_hund(b) if (x != "") num_text <- paste0(num_text, return_hund(b), " ", mags[i], " ") a <- a - b * 1000 ^ (i - 1) } return(ifelse(sign(number) > 0, num_text, paste("negative", num_text))) } my_num <- data.frame(nums = c( 0, 1, -11, 13, 99, 100, -101, 113, -120, 450, -999, 1000, 1001, 1017, 3000, 3001, 9999, 10000, 10001, 10100, 10101, 19000, 20001, 25467, 99999, 100000, 1056012, -200000, 200001, -200012, 2012567, -5685436, 5000201, -11627389, 100067652, 456000342) ) my_num$text <- as.character(lapply(my_num$nums, make_number)) print(my_num, right=F)