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2007 Sep 17
2
Date vs date (long)
...ts in general,
because of the unspecified units."
If I carry this idea forward, the R should insist that I specify units for
any variable that corresponds to a physical quantity, e.g. "height" or
"weight", so that it can slap my hands with an error message when I type
bodyMassIndex = weight/ height^2
or cause plot(height^2, weight) to fail. This would go a long way towards
making R the most frustrating program available. (An Microsoft gives some
stiff competition in that area!)
c.
"It is assumed that the divisor is unit-less.
Convert to numeric first to avoid this...