Is there a digit separator in R like using underscore in Python?

Question

In Python there is a way to make large numerals more readable using the underscore, e.g. 1000000 == 1_000_000, as discussed several times here. However, is there something similar in R?

Googling it just leads me to how to format the variable as a string using format and formatC. I already tried 1_000, 1 000, 1'000 and 1,000 but they only produce error messages. Is there really no workaround?

Answer 1

Something like this:

as.numeric(gsub("_","", "1_000_000"))