[R] Convert Package Interest?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Stephen Sefick <sas0025 at 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,
>

You might want to check out the udunits2 package on CRAN.

> library(udunits2)
> ud.convert(1, "miles", "km")
[1] 1.609344


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