Many measurements have no unit, but some uncertainty - e.g. the b and se from an arbitrary regression. Can you give specific examples of the advantages from binding these packages tightly together?
On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 at 21:23, Iñaki Úcar <i.uca...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > -- 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
