Ordering Version Numbers

Usage

orderVersion(x, decreasing = FALSE)

sortVersion(x, ...)

Arguments

x: a character vector of version numbers
decreasing: a logical that indicates if the ordering should be decreasing
...: extra parameters passed to orderVersion

Description

Orders a vector of version numbers, in natural order.

Examples

v <- c('1.0', '1.03', '1.2')
order(v)

[1] 1 2 3
orderVersion(v)

[1] 1 3 2
sort(v)

[1] "1.0"  "1.03" "1.2" 
sortVersion(v)

[1] "1.0"  "1.2"  "1.03"