R-alpha: comparing alpha and numeric

[Martin Maechler]

The solution is :
 If one of them is  character(), both are coerced to and then compared..

which 'naturally' gives

> "23"<3   <-->  "23" < "3"   <-->  "AB" < "B"
[1] TRUE
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