getPlottingUnit: Interprets a unit key stings as a scaleing factor
In Sea2Data/Rstox: Running Stox functionality independently in R

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

Given a key string such as "milliseconds" (possibly abbreviated) or the abbreviation "ms" (identical matching), the unit (here milliseconds) and scaling factor (here 1e-3) is returned.

1 2	getPlottingUnit(unit = NULL, var = "Abundance", baseunit = NULL, implemented = c(1, 2, 3), def.out = TRUE)

`unit`	A unit key string indicating the unit (see getPlottingUnit()$definitions$unlist.units for available key strings), or alternatively a numeric value giving the scaling factor.
`var`	A key string indicating the variable to plot (see getPlottingUnit()$defaults$Rstox_var for available values).
`baseunit`	The unit used in the data.
`implemented`	An integer vector giving the inplemented variables, which are the first two ("Abundance", "Weight") in the current version of Rstox.
`def.out`	Logical: if TRUE return also the defaults and definitions.

a list of the following four elements: 1. the scaling factor, 2. the unit string, 3. a matrix of the default values, and 4. a matrix of the defintions.

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getPlottingUnit(unit="milli", var="abund", baseunit="stox", def.out=FALSE)
getPlottingUnit(unit="milli", var="weight", baseunit="stox", def.out=FALSE)
getPlottingUnit(unit="hecto", var="weight", baseunit="stox")