currency - money representation in R

Question

I would like to know how can I work with money with R. It means, do arithmetic, print well formatted numbers and etc.

For example I have some values

1.222.333,37 
1.223.444,88

I could translate it to numeric and round it, removing the cents, but there isn't a better pattern to work with? I did try the format method, something like:

format(141103177058,digits=3,small.interval=3,decimal.mark='.',small.mark=',')

but without success. any tip or ideas?

Answer 1

The scales package has a function for this: dollar_format()

install.packages("scales")
library(scales)

muchoBucks <- 15558.5985121
dollar_format()(muchoBucks)

[1] "$15,558.60"