At 00:48 04/04/2009, 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!)
Even late in the day I cannot resist sharing the
astonishment of a colleague from the United
States when I told him I had been taught as a child the rhyme
A pint of pure water
Weighs a pound and a quarter
whereas he had been taught
A pint's a pound
The world around
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.
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