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 use Mathcad for is calculations that involve physical quantities and units. For example, in Mathcad I can add 1 kilometer to 1 mile and get the right answer in the units of length I choose. Likewise, if I try to add 1 kilometer to 1 kilogram I get properly chastised. Is there a way in R to assign quantities and units to numbers and have R keep track of them like Mathcad does?
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