Suggestion: `as.character.units` function

[niklhart]

Hello everyone,

I was a bit surprised to see that there is no dedicated as.character method for the units class. The default drops units altogether. I'd have expect something similar to the output that format.units provides.

For example, I was expecting

x <- set_units(1,m)
as.character(x)

to return "1 m" or "1 [m]" and not "1".

An additional advantage for an as.character method would be that sprintf would support units as well.

[Enchufa2]

Thanks, so you expect as.character.units to do essentially the same as format.units? Or do you expect any difference?

[niklhart]

The format.units result is good, I see no reason for as.character.units to do anything different.