R help - Jul 2012 - Convert Package Interest?

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,

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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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On 24/07/12 12:12, Stephen Sefick 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.
Why not?  Everybody else does! :-)

     cheers,

         Rolf Turner