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More Capability for Capabilities

2 messages · Dario Strbenac, Dirk Eddelbuettel

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Dario Strbenac
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Good day,

The capabilities function gives a logical result of which features R has been compiled with. Is there a more advanced variety of the function that will give the version number of the library, or its system path, rather than simply TRUE ?

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Dario Strbenac
PhD Student
University of Sydney
Camperdown NSW 2050
Australia
Dirk Eddelbuettel
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On 28 January 2016 at 09:00, Dario Strbenac wrote:
| The capabilities function gives a logical result of which features R has been compiled with. Is there a more advanced variety of the function that will give the version number of the library, or its system path, rather than simply TRUE ?

Both can _change_ when dynamic linking is involved [1].  So I'd say that is a job
for your operating system.

Eg on mine and taking png:

  edd at max:~$ r -e 'print(capabilities()[["png"]])'
  [1] TRUE
  edd at max:~$ ldd /usr/lib/R/modules/R_X11.so | grep png
          libpng12.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng12.so.0 (0x00007f150324d000)
  edd at max:~$ dpkg -S /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng12.so.0
  libpng12-0:amd64: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng12.so.0
  edd at max:~$ 

Dirk

[1] Presumably only minor numbers change while the ABI remains the same.