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Question regarding .make_numeric_version with non-character input

Kurt Hornik 
Well, if I could turn back time and start again, I'd implement package
versions in the Debian way, and not numeric only.  As you know, the
current approach does not conveniently allow for handling binary
revisions or NMUs.

Currently, package_version extends numeric_version, but in principle
that could be changed: we would of course have to ensure that we go on
using numeric-only package versions for source packages so that older
versions of R can handle these.

One could in principle also enhance the 'strict' argument so that
e.g. strict = NA says drop all non-numeric non-sep parts, but it would
be better to first figure out whether it wouldn't be better to make
things work for non-numeric version components too :-)

Best
-k

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Kurt Hornik Question regarding .make_numeric_version with non-character input Apr 1 Hervé Pagès Question regarding .make_numeric_version with non-character input Apr 24 Kurt Hornik Question regarding .make_numeric_version with non-character input Apr 24 Hervé Pagès Question regarding .make_numeric_version with non-character input Apr 25 Dirk Eddelbuettel Question regarding .make_numeric_version with non-character input Apr 25 Kurt Hornik Question regarding .make_numeric_version with non-character input Apr 25 Kurt Hornik Question regarding .make_numeric_version with non-character input Apr 25 Hervé Pagès Question regarding .make_numeric_version with non-character input Apr 25