Releases: r-quantities/constants
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constants 1.0.1
constants 1.0.0
Update to version 8.1, the 2018 CODATA recommended values (#7 addressing #6).
This version contains some breaking changes that are necessary to streamline
future updates and provide a stable symbol table:
- The
codata
table includes the absolute uncertainty instead of the relative
one. Thus, therel_uncertainty
column has been dropped in favour of the new
uncertainty
. Also, columns have been slightly reordered. - Symbol names for constants have changed. The old ones were hand-crafted and
thus unmanageable. This release adopts the ASCII symbols defined by NIST in
their webpage, except for those that collide with some base R function. In
particular, there are two cases:c
, the speed of light, has been renamed as
c0
;sigma
, the Stefan-Boltzmann constant, has been renamed assigma0
. - Constant types, or categories, (column
codata$type
) adopts the names defined
by NIST in the webpage too. Some constants belong to more than one category
(separated by comma); some others belong to no category (missing type).
There are some new features too:
- In addition to the
codata
data frame, this release includescodata.cor
, a
correlation matrix for all the constants. - In addition to
syms_with_errors
andsyms_with_units
, there is a new list
of symbols calledsyms_with_quantities
(available if the optional
quantities
package is installed), which provides constant values with
uncertainty and units. - Experimental support for correlated values in
syms_with_errors
and
syms_with_quantities
is provided (disabled by default; see details in
help(syms)
for activation instructions).
constants 0.0.2
constants 0.0.1
First release.