This paper presents an R package to handle and represent measurements with errors in a very simple way. We briefly introduce the main concepts of metrology and propagation of uncertainty, and discuss related R packages. Building upon this, we introduce the errors package, which provides a class for associating uncertainty metadata, automated propagation and reporting. Working with errors enables transparent, lightweight, less error-prone handling and convenient representation of measurements with errors. Finally, we discuss the advantages, limitations and future work of computing with errors.
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units, errors, car, msm, metRology, propagate, spup, distr, distrEllipse, distrEx, distrMod, distrRmetrics, distrSim, distrTeach, magrittr, ggplot2, tibble
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Ucar, et al., "Measurement Errors in R", The R Journal, 2018
BibTeX citation
@article{RJ-2018-075,
author = {Ucar, Iñaki and Pebesma, Edzer and Azcorra, Arturo},
title = {Measurement Errors in R},
journal = {The R Journal},
year = {2018},
note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2018-075},
doi = {10.32614/RJ-2018-075},
volume = {10},
issue = {2},
issn = {2073-4859},
pages = {549-557}
}