Re: [R-pkg-devel] r-quantities seeking feedback

2017-10-07 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Hi Iñaki, OK, it sounds like we have no practical disagreement: you're planning to keep separate packages and then have a third one for integration. That will be fine for people like me who don't necessarily want to specify units for our regressions. I look forward to seeing this! Cheers, David

Re: [R-pkg-devel] r-quantities seeking feedback

2017-10-07 Thread Iñaki Úcar
2017-10-06 22:38 GMT+02:00 Bill Denney : > Hi Iñaki and David, > > I fully see the need in a standardized unit package, and I understand the > need for propagation of errors (though I'm in the opposite camp to David > where I usually need unit tracking and conversion and rarely need error > prop

Re: [R-pkg-devel] r-quantities seeking feedback

2017-10-07 Thread Iñaki Úcar
2017-10-06 22:28 GMT+02:00 David Hugh-Jones : > 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? As Duncan already pointed out, the units of b an