grapes-gt-grapes: Perform greater than comparison between two objects

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Perform greater than comparison between two objects

Description

The goal of the comparison operators is to return a TRUE or FALSE value when any two objects are compared. The operators provides a simple, reliable equality check that allows comparing of NULLs, NA values, and atomic data types without error. This operator performs a greater than comparison.

For data frames, the operator will compare all values in all columns, and return a single TRUE if all values in the second data frame are greater than the corresponding values in the first data frame.

Usage

x1 %gt% x2

Arguments

x1	The first object to compare
x2	The second object to compare

Value

A single TRUE or FALSE value indicating the results of the comparison.

See Also

Other operators: %eq%(), %ge%(), %le%(), %lt%(), %ne%(), %p%()

Examples

# Comparing of NULLs and NA
NULL %gt% NULL        # FALSE
NULL %gt% NA          # FALSE
NA %gt% NA            # FALSE
1 %gt% NULL           # FALSE
1 %gt% NA             # FALSE

# Comparing of atomic values
1 %gt% 1              # FALSE
2 %gt% 1              # TRUE
1 %gt% 2              # FALSE
"one" %gt% "one"      # FALSE
1 %gt% "one"          # FALSE
1 %gt% Sys.Date()     # FALSE
Sys.Date() %gt% 1     # TRUE (Sys.Date() is a number)

# Comparing of vectors
v1 <- c(0, 1, 2)
v2 <- c(1, 2, 3)
v3 <- c(2, 3, 4)
v1 %gt% v1            # FALSE
v1 %gt% v2            # FALSE
v2 %gt% v1            # TRUE
v3 %gt% v1            # TRUE

# Comparing of data frames
d1 <- data.frame(A = v1, B = v2)
d2 <- data.frame(A = v2, B = v3)
d1 %gt% d1            # FALSE
d1 %gt% d2            # FALSE
d2 %gt% d1            # TRUE

# Mixing it up
d1 %gt% NULL          # FALSE
v1 %gt% d1            # FALSE
1 %gt% v1             # FALSE

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