[Rd] Feature request: compareVersion

[Sigbert Klinke]

Hi,

compareVersion returns -1, 0, or 1 rather than TRUE or FALSE which could 
be used in computing.

Sigbert

Am 21.12.21 um 15:19 schrieb Martin Maechler:
> 
>> Hi,
>> currently I have to use
> 
>> compareVersion(as.character(packageVersion("shiny")), "0.11")
> 
>> It would be nice if compareVersion would make the as.character
>> internally, rather then force the user to do it.
> 
>> Thanks
>> Sigbert
> 
> Well, if you follow the help page examples of packageVersion()
> you would use
> 
>> packageVersion("Matrix") >= "1.4.0"
> [1] TRUE
>> packageVersion("shiny") >= "0.11"
> [1] TRUE
>>


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