R Session Information

Query and print information about the current R session. It is similar to 'utils::sessionInfo()', but includes more information about packages, and where they were installed from.

Query and print information about the current R session. It is similar to utils::sessionInfo(), but includes more information about packages, and where they were installed from.

Installation

devtools::install_github("r-lib/sessioninfo")

Usage

Example output:

sessioninfo::session_info()

─ Session info ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 setting  value
 version  R version 3.5.0 (2018-04-23)
 os       macOS Sierra 10.12.6
 system   x86_64, darwin15.6.0
 ui       X11
 language (EN)
 collate  en_US.UTF-8
 ctype    en_US.UTF-8
 tz       Europe/Brussels
 date     2018-08-09
 
─ Packages ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 package     * version    date       source
 clisymbols    1.2.0      2017-05-21 CRAN (R 3.5.0)
 crayon        1.3.4      2017-09-16 CRAN (R 3.5.0)
 gitty         1.0.0      2018-07-16 Github (gaborcsardi/[email protected])
 memuse        4.0-0      2017-11-10 CRAN (R 3.5.0)
 prettycode  * 1.0.1      2017-12-12 CRAN (R 3.5.0)
 prompt        1.0.0      2018-07-16 Github (gaborcsardi/[email protected])
 sessioninfo   1.0.1.9000 2018-08-09 local
 tracer      * 1.0.0      2017-01-28 CRAN (R 3.5.0)
 whisker       0.3-2      2013-04-28 CRAN (R 3.5.0)
 withr         2.1.2      2018-03-15 CRAN (R 3.5.0)

Copying to the clipboard

You can use the clipr package to copy the session info to the clipboard:

clipr::write_clip(session_info())

(The current clipr version prints a warning, but you can ignore that.)

License

GPL-2

News

1.1.0

package_info() now has a dependencies argument, to filter the type of dependent packages in the output (#22).
session_info() and package_info() now show the library search path, and also which library each package was loaded from. They also warn if the on-disk version of the package has a different path than the loaded version (#9, #20).
package_info()'s ondiskversion entry is now correct.
session_info() and package_info() now verify the MD5 hashes of DLL files on Windows, and warns for micmatches, as these are usually broken packages (#12, #16).
We use now the cli package, instead of clisymbols, and this fixes printing bugs in LaTeX documents (#14).
session_info() and platform_info() now include the LC_CTYPE locale category (@patperry, #11)
session_info() and package_info() now print source of the CRAN packages in uppercase, always, even if they were installed by devtools.
session_info() and platform_info() now handle the case when utils::sessionInfo()$running is NULL (@HenrikBengtsson, #7).
session_info() and package_info() now only list loaded versions for namespaces which are already loaded. This only makes a difference if the pkgs argument is given (#4).
Do not consult the max.print option, for platform and package info (@jennybc, #13).