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Date of this Version
12-2016
Document Type
Article
Citation
The R Journal (December 2016) 8(2); Editor: Michael Lawrence
Abstract
We briefly review SI units, and discuss R packages that deal with measurement units, their compatibility and conversion. Built upon udunits2 and the UNIDATA udunits library, we introduce the package units that provides a class for maintaining unit metadata. When used in expression, it automatically converts units, and simplifies units of results when possible; in case of incompatible units, errors are raised. The class flexibly allows expansion beyond predefined units. Using units may eliminate a whole class of potential scientific programming mistakes. We discuss the potential and limitations of computing with explicit units.
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Copyright 2016, The R Foundation. Open access material. License: CC BY 3.0 Unported