a handy function "format.cardinal", looking for a proper name..
Peter Dalgaard BSA
p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk
20 Mar 1998 22:19:32 +0100
Thomas Lumley <thomas@biostat.washington.edu> writes:
>=20
> On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Martin Maechler wrote:
> >=20
> > TL> ordinal(1:3,"francais")
> > TL> "1re" "2me" "3me"
> > =09 ^^
> > =09is this okay, even for males? (premier / premi=E8re)
> >=20
>=20
> good point. It would be "1er", not "1re". We do need a gender argumen=
t.
I thought it was "1ere" "2eme", etc.?
We probably shouldn't go into "erster, zweiter, dritter,..." and the
Austrian and Swiss variants thereof, though. ;^)
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