utils (version 3.3.2)

roman: Roman Numerals

Description

Simple manipulation of (a small set of) integer numbers as roman numerals.

Usage

as.roman(x)
.romans

Arguments

x

a numeric or character vector of arabic or roman numerals.

Details

as.roman creates objects of class "roman" which are internally represented as integers, and have suitable methods for printing, formatting, subsetting, coercion, etc, see methods(class = "roman"). Only numbers between 1 and 3899 have a unique representation as roman numbers. .romans is the basic dictionary, a named character vector.

References

Wikipedia contributors (2006). Roman numerals. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roman_numerals&oldid=78252134. Accessed September 29, 2006.

Examples

## First five roman 'numbers'.
(y <- as.roman(1 : 5))
## Middle one.
y[3]
## Current year as a roman number.
(y <- as.roman(format(Sys.Date(), "%Y")))
## Today, and  10, 20, 30, and 100 years ago ...
y - 10*c(0:3,10)

## mixture of arabic and roman numbers :
as.roman(c(NA, 1:3, "", strrep("I", 1:6))) # + NA with a warning for "IIIIII"
cc <- c(NA, 1:3, strrep("I", 0:5))
(rc <- as.roman(cc)) # two NAs: 0 is not "roman"
(ic <- as.integer(rc)) # works automitcally [without an explicit method]
## simple consistency checks -- arithmetic when result is in  {1,2,..,3899} :
stopifnot(identical(rc, as.roman(rc)), # as.roman(.) is "idempotent"
          identical(rc + rc + (3*rc), rc*5),
          identical(ic, c(NA, 1:3, NA, 1:5)),
          identical(as.integer(5*rc), 5L*ic),
          identical(as.numeric(rc), as.numeric(ic)),
          identical(as.list(rc), as.list(ic)))