"numeric" as an alias for the "double" "type"

Would it be useful to add "numeric" to the data types supported by argparse? For example:

parser <- ArgumentParser()
parser$add_argument('--foo', type='numeric')

Fails with:

Error in get_python_type(type, proposed_arguments) : 
  type numeric not supported, supported types: 'logical', 'integer', 'double' or 'character'

I guess an R user would expect it to work since there exist functions like is.numeric, as.numeric, and class(1.2) returns "numeric". (On the other hand, typeof(1.2) returns "double").

See also numeric docs:

numeric is identical to double. It creates a double-precision vector of the specified length with each element equal to 0. ... It is a historical anomaly that R has two names for its floating-point vectors, double and numeric (and formerly had real).

Once again, thanks for supporting this great package and responding quickly to users!

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trevorld / r-argparse

"numeric" as an alias for the "double" "type" #42