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20031007: New R interface to udunits package available

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  • Subject: 20031007: New R interface to udunits package available
  • Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 10:31:36 -0600
David,

Way cool!  Thanks!

I'll put this on the UDUNITS homepage.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson

> To: address@hidden
> From: "David Pierce" <address@hidden>
> Subject: New R interface to udunits package available
> Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>
> just thought I'd mention that I've created a R package that adds an
> interface to the udunits package.  In case you are not familiar with it, R
> is a open source version of the "Splus" statistical package, and is rather
> amazingly complete, useful, and full featured as open source packages go. 
> It is known most in the statistics world, but is also useful for those of
> us who are not keen on paying the license fees for IDL or Matlab.
> 
> Anyway, thought I'd mention that the R interface is there in case you want
> to put up a note to that effect on the udunits web page.  The package is
> in the standard CRAN (comprehensive R archive network) location:
> 
> http://cran.r-project.org/
> 
> Under (bet you guessed this part) "udunits".
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --Dave
> 
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> David W. Pierce        / Climate Research Division
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