On 20/08/2009, Patrick Connolly <p_conno...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > On Thu, 20-Aug-2009 at 10:25PM +1000, Jim Lemon wrote: > >> e-letter wrote: >>> Readers, >>> >>> How do I configure R so that all units of measurement are in >>> millimetres? For example if I want to set the width of a graph, I want >>> to write: >>> width=100 >>> and R interprets this value as millimetres. >>> >>> >> Hi e-letter, >> If you just want a quick hack: >> >> mm2in<-function(mm) return(mm/25.4) >> >> then >> >> width=mm2in(100) > > As a dedicated lazy typist, I've discovered that this is less typing: > > width=100/25.4 > Thanks, but really I want to change the entire R installation to accept millimetre as the default unit of measurement.
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