From rkoenker at uiuc.edu  Thu Dec 29 21:07:19 2005
From: rkoenker at uiuc.edu (roger koenker)
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:07:19 -0600
Subject: [Rd] 'sessionInfo()' instead of 'version'
References: <43B42B58.6010400@acm.org>
Message-ID: <7DB3F7A9-DC60-41D5-BC21-A0C264CEEDD1@uiuc.edu>


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

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

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.

So, for what it is worth....

Roger

PS  My notion is that it is sometimes useful to document the state of  
play
when a particular object was created, much like the recent thread on
date stamping of objects in R-help.

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[Rd] 'sessionInfo()' instead of 'version'
roger koenker