Physical constants in R

Question

Just curious - is there a package or dataset somewhere containing values for physical constants? I only ask because I\'ve now typed in 273.15 (Celsius to Kelvi

Answer 1

Should be fairly easy to download and parse this:

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/Table/allascii.txt

• looks like fixed format, but those numeric triples might be a bit fiddly. It doesn't have your 273.15 though, because maybe its not a "physical constant" by some definition. But if you ever need the shielded helion to shielded proton mag. mom. ratio, its there.

[actually scratch that, that file is not nicely formatted, and a couple of the constants break even the approximate fixed-width formatting. Needs cleverer processing to be useful]