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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Economics vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois fax: 217-244-6678 Champaign, IL 61820 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel