Cleanup and improvements in unit mapping #290
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Before tackling #289, I realized that unit mapping was not entirely correct: we were mapping symbols/names to units, but not units to symbol/names, and apparently both are required. This PR solves this.
I've also cleaned up the C interface by distinguishing two kinds of functions:
R_<udunits2_name>
, e.g.,R_ut_parse
.ud_<something>
, e.g.,ud_convert
.Finally, I've removed deprecated functions and created a man page specifically to document all the defunct ones.