Measurement Errors in R
Iñaki Úcar, Edzer J Pebesma, Arturo Azcorra · The R Journal · 2019
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.