On Mon, 13-Apr-2009 at 09:15PM +0100, S Ellison wrote:
|> >>> 04/13/09 4:01 AM >>>
|> >The UK uses metres for most lengths but miles for road distances -
|> >the worst of all worlds. They even measure fuel performance in
|> >litres per 100 *miles*, if you can believe it.
|> No, we don't. We us
>>> 04/13/09 4:01 AM >>>
>The UK uses metres for most lengths but miles for road distances -
>the worst of all worlds. They even measure fuel performance in
>litres per 100 *miles*, if you can believe it.
No, we don't. We use miles per (Imperial) gallon.
Only Euronuts would combine litres and
Another issue with units is 'recognising' things. For example, Hz are
also s^-1 ...
S
>>> Stavros Macrakis 04/13/09 9:38 AM >>>
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:01 PM, wrote:
> It is, however, an interesting problem and there are the tools there
to handle it. Basically you need to create a class fo
Hi,
Two thoughts I'd like to share on this subject:
1) Something really cool for conversions between units is the Google
search bar: type in " 3 inches in cm" and you get,
3 inches = 7.62 centimeters
or, " 3 £ in dollar",
3 UK£ = 4.4007 U.S. dollars
or "12 cubic meters to pi
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:01 PM, wrote:
> It is, however, an interesting problem and there are the tools there to
> handle it. Basically you need to create a class for each kind of measure you
> want to handle ("length", "area", "volume", "weight", and so on) and then
> overload the arithmet
LaBudde
Sent: Monday, 13 April 2009 12:20 PM
To: Tom La Bone
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Physical Units in Calculations
At 08:00 PM 4/12/2009, Tom La Bone wrote:
>Back in 2005 I had been doing most of my work in Mathcad for over 10 years.
>For a number of reasons I decided to
At 08:00 PM 4/12/2009, Tom La Bone wrote:
Back in 2005 I had been doing most of my work in Mathcad for over 10 years.
For a number of reasons I decided to switch over to R. After much effort and
help from you folks I am finally "thinking" in R rather than thinking in
Mathcad and trying to transl
Back in 2005 I had been doing most of my work in Mathcad for over 10 years.
For a number of reasons I decided to switch over to R. After much effort and
help from you folks I am finally "thinking" in R rather than thinking in
Mathcad and trying to translating to R. Anyway, the only task I still us
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