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

[Duncan Murdoch]

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!)

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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