[Rd] Question regarding .make_numeric_version with non-character input

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Hi Kurt,

On 25 April 2024 at 08:07, Kurt Hornik wrote:
| >>>>> Hervé Pagès writes:
| 
| > Hi Kurt,
| > Is it intended that numeric_version() returns an error by default on
| > non-character input in R 4.4.0? 
| 
| Dear Herve, yes, that's the intention.
| 
| > It seems that I can turn this into a warning by setting
| > _R_CHECK_STOP_ON_INVALID_NUMERIC_VERSION_INPUTS_=false but I don't
| > seem to be able to find any of this mentioned in the NEWS file.
| 
| That's what I added for smoothing the transition: it will be removed
| from the trunk shortly.

I would actually be nice to have a more robust variant for non-CRAN
versions. For example I just had to do a local hack to be able to use what
the QuantLib 'rc' 1.34-rc reported (when I then used to R facilities to
condition code and tests on whether I was dealing with code before or after
an API transition).  So as a wishlist: could you envision an extension to
package_version() casting that, say, removes all [a-zA-Z]+ first (if opted
into) ?

Dirk

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