[R] [OT ?] rant (was : Re: Conversions From standard to metric units)

[Patrick Connolly]

On Fri, 03-Apr-2009 at 07:48PM -0400, 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!)

Hence the word "standard". :-)




>
> 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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