add function to give current cpp version

[wStockhausen]

It would be helpful to add a function that would give a character version of the current (latest) version of the cpp code, because it is a little hard to find (I originally thought it was the same as the version for VAST, but I eventually found it by looking in the "inst" directory under the package directory).

[James-Thorson]

A little investigation suggests that package semver is a good place to start for a function doing this, but it would need to be called from a wrapper function that (1) knows where to look for functions and (2) knows to strip off characters before the first number. Anyway, I might take a crack at this later, although its not the top of the list

[wStockhausen]

Was just thinking it'd be something like getVersion<-function(return("VAST_v4_0_0");)and you'd just update the character string when you came out with a new cpp version. Course it would be simpler to maintain if you could write the code to do it automagically.

Buck

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On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 9:43 PM, Jim Thorson notifications@github.com wrote:

A little investigation suggests that package semver is a good place to start for a function doing this, but it would need to be called from a wrapper function that (1) knows where to look for functions and (2) knows to strip off characters before the first number. Anyway, I might take a crack at this later, although its not the top of the list

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[James-Thorson]

now added, see response to #30