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load_units_xml

Load a unit system


Description

Load an XML database containing a unit system compatible with UDUNITS2.

Usage

load_units_xml(path = default_units_xml())

Arguments

path

a path to a valid unit system in XML format.

Details

A unit system comprises a root <unit-system> and a number of children defining prefixes (<prefix>) or units (<unit>). See the contents of

system.file("share/udunits", package="units")

for examples.

Examples

# load a new unit system
load_units_xml(system.file("share/udunits/udunits2-base.xml", package="units"))
## Not run: 
set_units(1, rad) # doesn'twork

## End(Not run)

# reload the default unit system
load_units_xml()
set_units(1, rad) # works again

units

Measurement Units for R Vectors

v0.7-1
GPL-2
Authors
Edzer Pebesma [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8049-7069>), Thomas Mailund [aut], Tomasz Kalinowski [aut], James Hiebert [ctb], Iñaki Ucar [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6403-5550>)
Initial release

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