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. url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker email rkoenker at uiuc.edu Department of Economics vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois fax: 217-244-6678 Champaign, IL 61820
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
>>>>> "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" >