My fault, what you show is exactly what I wanted... url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Economics vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois fax: 217-244-6678 Champaign, IL 61820
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 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
