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Forcing a string to int

Can someone explain why the following happens in R:

> 0.0 < "14.9a"
[1] TRUE

> 2.03 < "14.9a"
[1] FALSE

> 10.11006 < "14.9a"
[1] TRUE

what happens when "14.9a" is forcibly injected into an int? It cannot just ignore non-numeric characters, as the second example shows.

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I think it does the opposite and converts int to string.

> "0.0" < "14.9a"
[1] TRUE

> "2.03" < "14.9a"
[1] FALSE

> "10.11006" < "14.9a"
[1] TRUE

On the help page:

If two arguments are atomic vectors of different types, forcing the type of another, (decreasing) order of priority to be a symbol, complex, numerical, integer, logical and unprocessed.

and:

, : . . , en_US, C ( ASCII) . - ...

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?"<":

, , () - , , , , .

, . (I.e., "2" > "10" )

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