El 6 oct. 2017 19:13, "David Hugh-Jones" <davidhughjo...@gmail.com> escribió:
One question that comes to mind: what's the synergy? I e why are units and errors best handled together? I use standard errors a lot, but never units... I would like a standard way to represent uncertainty but don't think I need the other stuff. You will always be able to use errors (or units) alone if you wish, but every measurement has a unit and some uncertainty, so we think it's interesting to have the possibility of handling them in a unified way (I/O, propagation, automatic axes and error bars in plots...). Iñaki Cheers, D On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 at 17:25, Iñaki Úcar <i.uca...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > Edzer Pebesma and I are combining forces into a new GitHub > organisation called "r-quantities", to which we have moved the CRAN > packages 'units', 'errors' and 'constants'. The idea is to write a new > package called 'quantities' to integrate 'units' and 'errors' into a > comprehensive solution for dealing with quantity values + uncertainty > calculus. > > Given that a significant fraction of R users, both practitioners and > researchers, use R to analyse measurements, we believe that the R > community would benefit from such a project. Moreover, to the best of > our knowledge, there exists no such an integrated and automated > framework outside the R language. > > We would like to share a proposal [1] to be submitted to the R > Consortium before October 15. Until then, we kindly invite the R > package developers to review it. Any feedback or contribution would be > very helpful. > > [1] https://github.com/r-quantities/proposal > > Regards, > Iñaki > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel -- Sent from Gmail Mobile [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
