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Calculate the percentage change between two values

Source: R/percent.R
percentage_change.Rd

Percentage change is obtained by dividing the change in value by the original value.

Usage

percentage_change(new, old)

Arguments

new

<dbl> newer value

old

<dbl> older value

Value

<dbl> vector of percentage change

Details

If the result is positive, then it is an increase. If the result is negative, then it is a decrease.

Examples

percentage_change(new = 949740, old = 942482)
#> [1] 0.007700943

percentage_change(new = 942482, old = 1132783)
#> [1] -0.1679942