https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/units/ Recent content in Units on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sat, 12 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/09/12/herring-units/ Sat, 12 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/09/12/herring-units/ The hex sticker is better than the package. tl;dr I made the tiny R package {cran} to convert volumes to an antiquated measurement of fish. Why? To test out the {units} package and to resolve a joke about the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN). {units} The {units} package by Edzer Pebesma, Thomas Mailund and James Hiebert (site, source, R Journal) helps you set and create units, convert between them and raise an error where that isn’t possible.