There are at least two partial solutions to the question.
length units are handled in the unit function in the grid package.
?grid:::unit
time units are handled in the lubridate package
Garrett Grolemund, Hadley Wickham (2011).
Dates and Times Made Easy with lubridate.
Journal of Statistical
On Dec 8, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Stephen Eglen wrote:
Has anyone got a neat way in R to handle scientific units along with
numeric
vectors?
Not really. There is limited support for conversions as well. I have
wondered about this after addressing a similar question on Stack
Overflow:
http:/
Has anyone got a neat way in R to handle scientific units along with numeric
vectors? e.g. in mathematica, there is a Units package to allow you to
do the following:
85 Meter/Second * 10 Second
answer: 850 Meter
(taken from http://library.wolfram.com/howtos/units/)
Thanks, Stephen
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