Paul Gilbert wrote:> I would like to check the version of a package from a running R session. Is
> there a recommended/preferred, system independent way to do this?
I use
> package.description("eda", fields="Version")
[1] "1.5.1"
but you may still need to parse the string to get major/minor details.
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