Some changes have been made to the posting guide, based on suggestions from various R-help contributors over the past year. The most significant change is the recommendation to use 'sessionInfo()' rather than 'version' when asking questions about unexpected behavior or bugs. This change was made because 'sessionInfo()' reports the version and a list of packages currently attached. As more and more packages become available, it becomes more likely that unexpected behavior is due to conflicts between packages, so this is relevant information. [Note that sessionInfo() currently does not report all the information that 'version' does (it omits at least "Status" and "svn rev"). R-core members are aware of this -- whether or not they change this is up to them.] -- Tony Plate
update to posting guide: use 'sessionInfo()' instead of 'version'
2 messages · Tony Plate, Seth Falcon
I think using sessionInfo() instead of version is a good idea.
On 29 Dec 2005, tplate at acm.org wrote:
[Note that sessionInfo() currently does not report all the information that 'version' does (it omits at least "Status" and "svn rev"). R-core members are aware of this -- whether or not they change this is up to them.]
Another thing not currently reported by sessionInfo() is a list of loaded name spaces. As more packages use name spaces and importing dependencies instead of attaching them, this will become useful debug info. Loaded name spaces can be listed using loadedNamespaces(). + seth