From Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>  Thu Mar 19 09:34:44 1998
From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> (Martin Maechler)
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 10:34:44 +0100
Subject: a handy function "format.cardinal", looking for a proper name..
Message-ID: <199803190934.KAA07638@sophie.ethz.ch>

This is not a nice name (format is generic; cardinal is not a class) for a
nice function, which I would like in several places in R code and therefore
would like to become part of R  (under a better name !)

format.cardinal <- function(i, sep="")
        paste(i, c("st","nd","rd","th")[pmin(4,i)], sep=sep)

# Try
format.cardinal(sample(1:20))
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a handy function "format.cardinal", looking for a proper name..
Martin Maechler