[Rd] require( "foo (>= 2.1)" )

[Romain Francois]

Hello,

I often find myself writing code like :

if( require( "foo" ) && compareVersion( packageDescription( 
"foo")[["Version"]], "2.1" ) < 0 ){

	# code that uses version 2.1 of foo
} else {
	stop( "could not load version >= 2.1 of foo" )
}



Would it make sense to include something like this in require, library, 
etc ...

require( "foo (>= 2.1)" )
require( "foo", minimal.version = "2.1" )

I know we can use Depends: foo (>= 2.1) in a package DESCRIPTION file, 
but that does not work for loose dependencies, when package "bar" works 
better with "foo" but can still work fine without, or when not making a 
package.

Romain

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