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units (version 1.0-1)

Measurement Units for R Vectors

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Support for measurement units in R vectors, matrices and arrays: automatic propagation, conversion, derivation and simplification of units; raising errors in case of unit incompatibility. Compatible with the POSIXct, Date and difftime classes. Uses the UNIDATA udunits library and unit database for unit compatibility checking and conversion. Documentation about 'units' is provided in the paper by Pebesma, Mailund & Hiebert (2016, ), included in this package as a vignette; see 'citation("units")' for details.

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install.packages('units')

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1.0-1

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GPL-2

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Edzer Pebesma

Last Published

March 11th, 2026

Functions in units (1.0-1)

plot.units

Plot units objects
unitless

The "unit" type for vectors that are actually dimension-less.
units-defunct

Defunct functions in units
keep_units

Apply a function keeping units
load_units_xml

Load a unit system
mixed_units

Create or convert to a mixed units list-column
units

Handle measurement units
units_options

set one or more units global options
valid_udunits

Get information about valid units