extSoftVersion
Report Versions of Third-Party Software
Report versions of (external) third-party software used.
Usage
extSoftVersion()Details
The reports the versions of third-party software libraries in use. These are often external but might have been compiled into R when it was installed.
With dynamic linking, these are the versions of the libraries linked to in this session: with static linking, of those compiled in.
Value
-
A named character vector, currently with components
- zlib
- The version of
zlibin use. - bzlib
- The version of
bzlib(frombzip2) in use. - xz
- The version of
liblzma(fromxz) in use. - PCRE
- The version of
PCREin use. - ICU
- The version of
ICUin use (if any, otherwise""). - TRE
- The version of
libtrein use. - iconv
- The implementation and version of the
iconvlibrary in use (if known). Note that the values for
bzlib and pcre normally contain
a date as well as the version number, and that for tre includes
several items separated by spaces, the version number being the
second.For iconv this will give the implementation as well as the
version, for example "GNU libiconv 1.14", "glibc
2.18" or "win_iconv" (which has no version number).
See Also
libcurlVersion for the version of libCurl.
La_version for the version of LAPACK in use.
grSoftVersion for third-party graphics software.
tclVersion for the version of Tcl/Tk.
pcre_config for PCRE configuration options.
Examples
library(base)
extSoftVersion()
## the PCRE version
sub(" .*", "", extSoftVersion()["PCRE"])
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