From rkoenker at uiuc.edu  Thu Dec 29 22:17:39 2005
From: rkoenker at uiuc.edu (roger koenker)
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:17:39 -0600
Subject: [Rd] 'sessionInfo()' instead of 'version'
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My fault,  what you show is exactly what I wanted...

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On Dec 29, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On 12/29/2005 3:07 PM, roger koenker wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I'm not sure what you're asking for.  This is what I see in R- 
> patched; it's very similar to what 2.1.1 shows:
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.2.1, 2005-12-27, i386-pc-mingw32
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "splines"   "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices"  
> "utils"
> [7] "datasets"  "base"
>
> other attached packages:
> multtest survival
>  "1.8.0"   "2.20"
>
> There's no point showing the versions of base packages, because  
> they match the R version.  What other information would you like to  
> see?
>
> So far the following reasonable suggestions have been made.  I  
> forget where they were posted, so you may not have seen them:
>
>  - the Subversion revision number, at least for non-released versions
>  - the version number of the GUI, at least for OS X (where it  
> changes independently of R).
>
> Duncan Murdoch



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