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. 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.