From maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch  Thu Dec 29 22:15:27 2005
From: maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch (Martin Maechler)
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:15:27 +0100
Subject: [Rd] 'sessionInfo()' instead of 'version'
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>>>>> "roger" == roger koenker <rkoenker at uiuc.edu>
>>>>>     on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:07:19 -0600 writes:

    roger> In a private response to Tony Plate's suggestion to
    roger> replace version() output with sessionInfo() in R-help
    roger> requests,

    >> roger koenker wrote:
    >>> Thanks for this, it would seem useful to have version
    >>> numbers for the packages too?

    roger> and Tony replied,
    >>  Sounds sensible to me!  If I were you I'd send a message
    >> to R-devel suggesting this.  AFAIK, some changes to
    >> sessionInfo() are already being considered, so this is a
    >> good time to suggest that.

    roger> So, for what it is worth....

but the version numbers of the non-standard packages are
*there* -- so what do you mean ?

  > sessionInfo()
  R version 2.2.1, 2005-12-20, x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu 

  attached base packages:
  [1] "graphics"  "grDevices" "datasets"  "utils"     "methods"   "stats"    
  [7] "base"     

  other attached packages:
   cluster fortunes  sfsmisc 
  "1.10.2"  "1.2-0" "0.95-2" 
  >



[Rd] 'sessionInfo()' instead of 'version'
Martin Maechler