On Fri, 03-Apr-2009 at 07:48PM -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 03/04/2009 5:37 PM, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: >> Le vendredi 03 avril 2009 à 14:17 -0400, stephen sefick a écrit : >>> I am starting to use R for almost any sort of calculation that I need. >>> I am a biologist that works in the states, and there is often a need >>> to convert from standard units to metric units. >> >> <rant> >> >> US/Imperial units are *not* standard units. > > But they are fun: you should see the arguments you can have about > whether imperial fluid ounces are the same volume as US fluid ounces. > (They're not: US ounces are bigger. But not big enough so that their > gallons catch up!)
Hence the word "standard". :-) > > Duncan Murdoch > > > The former "metric system" >> is now called "Système International" (International System) for a >> reason, which is *not* gallocentrism of a "few" 6e7 frogs, but rather >> laziness of about 5.6e9 losers who refuse to load their memories with >> meaningless conversion factors... >> >> </rant> >> >> Emmanuel Charpentier >> who has served his time with >> pounds per cubic feet, furlongs >> per fortnight, BTU and other >> figments of British/American >> sadistic imagination, thank you >> very much... >> >> </rant> # Again, didn't work the first time... >> >>> Is there a package in >>> R for this already? If not I believe that I am going to write some of >>> the most often used in function form. My question is should I include >>> this in my StreamMetabolism package. It is not along the same theme >>> lines, but could loosely fit. The reason that I ask is that I don't >>> want to clutter CRAN with a small package containing some conversion >>> functions because I am to lazy to source them into R every time that I >>> use them, but I also don't want the StreamMetabolism package to turn >>> into StephenMisc Fuctions. Thoughts, comments, or suggestions would >>> be appreciated. >>> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ___ Patrick Connolly {~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas _( Y )_ Average minds discuss events (:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people (_)-(_) ..... Eleanor Roosevelt ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
