hypertidy/geodist

units

mpadge opened this issue · 3 comments

extending from #1, implement a units parameter to set user-determined units. This is done very neatly in cheap ruler, conveniently giving us our desired list of units to include.

edzer commented

Nice package! I would also go for m as the default unit since it is the SI base unit.

For conversions or typing units, I'd recommend to go with the units package, which takes care of vectors and matrices.

Thanks @edzer - shall do with m as default. units is a good suggestion, but we'll handle conversion of units in C just because this package is an exercise in (1) maximal possible speed, so only want one multiplication for each output rather than two; and (2) writing a package entirely free of depenencies

edzer commented

In that case, use m and don't do unit conversions in this package.