Perform greater than or equal comparison between two objects

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 or equal 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 or equal to the corresponding values in the first data frame.

x1 %ge% 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.

Details

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See also

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

Examples

# Comparing of NULLs and NA
NULL %ge% NULL        # TRUE
NULL %ge% NA          # FALSE
NA %ge% NA            # TRUE
1 %ge% NULL           # FALSE
1 %ge% NA             # FALSE

# Comparing of atomic values
1 %ge% 1              # TRUE
2 %ge% 1              # TRUE
1 %ge% 2              # FALSE
"one" %ge% "one"      # TRUE
1 %ge% "one"          # FALSE
1 %ge% Sys.Date()     # FALSE
Sys.Date() %ge% 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 %ge% v1            # TRUE
v1 %ge% v2            # FALSE
v2 %ge% v1            # TRUE
v3 %ge% v1            # TRUE

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

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