[OT ?] rant (was : Re: Conversions From standard to metric units)
Le vendredi 03 avril 2009 ? 14:17 -0400, stephen sefick a ?crit :
I am starting to use R for almost any sort of calculation that I need. I am a biologist that works in the states, and there is often a need to convert from standard units to metric units.
<rant> US/Imperial units are *not* standard units. The former "metric system" is now called "Syst?me International" (International System) for a reason, which is *not* gallocentrism of a "few" 6e7 frogs, but rather laziness of about 5.6e9 losers who refuse to load their memories with meaningless conversion factors... </rant> Emmanuel Charpentier who has served his time with pounds per cubic feet, furlongs per fortnight, BTU and other figments of British/American sadistic imagination, thank you very much... </rant> # Again, didn't work the first time...
Is there a package in R for this already? If not I believe that I am going to write some of the most often used in function form. My question is should I include this in my StreamMetabolism package. It is not along the same theme lines, but could loosely fit. The reason that I ask is that I don't want to clutter CRAN with a small package containing some conversion functions because I am to lazy to source them into R every time that I use them, but I also don't want the StreamMetabolism package to turn into StephenMisc Fuctions. Thoughts, comments, or suggestions would be appreciated.