package_info
Information about the currently loaded packages, or about a chosen set
Information about the currently loaded packages, or about a chosen set
Usage
package_info(pkgs = NULL, include_base = FALSE, dependencies = NA)
Arguments
- pkgs
Either a vector of package names or NULL. If
NULL
, displays all loaded packages. If a character vector, also, includes all dependencies of the package.- include_base
Include base packages in summary? By default this is false since base packages should always match the R version.
- dependencies
Whether to include the (recursive) dependencies as well. See the
dependencies
argument ofutils::install.packages()
.
Value
A data frame with columns:
package
: package name.ondiskversion
: package version (on the disk, which is sometimes not the same as the loaded version).loadedversion
: package version. This is the version of the loaded namespace ifpkgs
isNULL
, and it is the version of the package on disk otherwise. The two of them are almost always the same, though.path
: path to the package on disk.loadedpath
: the path the package was originally loaded from.attached
: logical, whether the package is attached to the search path.is_base
: logical, whether the package is a base package.date
: the date the package was installed or built.source
: where the package was installed from. E.g.CRAN
,GitHub
,local
(from the local machine), etc.md5ok
: Whether MD5 hashes for package DLL files match, on Windows.NA
on other platforms.library
: factor, which package library the package was loaded from. For loaded packages, this is (the factor representation of)loadedpath
, for otherspath
.
See session_info()
for the description of the printed columns
by package_info
(as opposed to the returned columns).
Examples
# NOT RUN {
package_info()
package_info("sessioninfo")
# }