On Jul 23, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Spencer Graves wrote:
If you haven't already, you might try "findFn" in the sos package to
look for other functions that do things similar to what your
functions do. If your package offers some functionality not present
in other packages, I'd encourage you to submit it to CRAN. Again,
if you haven't already done this, you might wish to add links to
functions in other packages that do similar but different things.
Spencer
Do follow Spencer's excellent advice, and many thanks to him for the
very useful sos::findFn. You might also look at StackOverflow where I
can remember replying to a similar question (as it turns out, about a
year ago).
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7214781/converting-units-in-r
On 7/23/2012 5:25 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Stephen Sefick
<sas0...@auburn.edu> wrote:
I am thinking about submitting a package to CRAN that contains
some units
conversion functions that I use on a regular basis. Would this be
helpful
to the community, or would it be better to keep this as a personal
package?
I don't want to clutter CRAN.
many thanks,
I think it would be quite useful to round up the various units efforts
and have them in a centrally package "location".
You might want to check out the udunits2 package on CRAN.
Thank you, Gabor. That package also requires installing an OS specific
program, also named "udunits2", for which the "udunits2" R-package
serves as a front-end. It appears to be primarily physical units.
library(udunits2)
ud.convert(1, "miles", "km")
[1] 1.609344
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