How to format a number as percentage in R?

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Even later:

As pointed out by @DzimitryM, percent() has been “retired” in favor of label_percent(), which is a synonym for the old percent_format() function.

label_percent() returns a function, so to use it, you need an extra pair of parentheses.

library(scales)
x <- c(-1, 0, 0.1, 0.555555, 1, 100)
label_percent()(x)
## [1] "-100%"   "0%"      "10%"     "56%"     "100%"    "10 000%"

Customize this by adding arguments inside the first set of parentheses.

label_percent(big.mark = ",", suffix = " percent")(x)
## [1] "-100 percent"   "0 percent"      "10 percent"    
## [4] "56 percent"     "100 percent"    "10,000 percent"

An update, several years later:

These days there is a percent function in the scales package, as documented in krlmlr’s answer. Use that instead of my hand-rolled solution.

Try something like

percent <- function(x, digits = 2, format = "f", ...) {
  paste0(formatC(100 * x, format = format, digits = digits, ...), "%")
}

With usage, e.g.,

x <- c(-1, 0, 0.1, 0.555555, 1, 100)
percent(x)

(If you prefer, change the format from "f" to "g".)

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