For science yes. For pleasure I'll still take a pint instead of 570ml!
Murray
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rolf Turner" <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz>
To: "Emmanuel Charpentier" <charp...@bacbuc.dyndns.org>
Cc: <r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: [R] [OT ?] rant (was : Re: Conversions From standard to
metricunits)
On 4/04/2009, at 10:37 AM, 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. 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>
<snip>
Right on, Red Freak!!!
cheers,
Rolf
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