From ggrothendieck at gmail.com  Thu Sep  3 19:16:42 2009
From: ggrothendieck at gmail.com (Gabor Grothendieck)
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 13:16:42 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Suggestion: Allow packages to add additional information
	to sessionInfo()
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The danger is that it could introduce bugs into the process
of reporting bugs.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Henrik Bengtsson<hb at stat.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> sessionInfo() has been proven really useful, but you still often have
> to ask for additional information in order to help troubleshooting.
> For instance, for troubleshooting the aroma.affymetrix, it is very
> helpful to know what the current working directory is, for other
> packages certain system environment variables might be useful and so
> on.
>
> One solution could be to provide support for hook functions of
> sessionInfo(), which package then can register and append to the
> 'sessionInfo' list structure. ?Does this make sense?
>
> /Henrik
>
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[Rd] Suggestion: Allow packages to add additional information to sessionInfo()
Gabor Grothendieck