Hi All,

I was wondering if there would be any interest in adding an option to the
"save" function in R that I think would be useful. I was thinking that it
might be useful to have an option that would generate a ".sessionInfo"
variable that contains the output of "sessionInfo()", and adds it to the
list of objects to be saved. This way, whenever an RData object is loaded,
all the information about the R version, and attached packages present
would be available for query.

I know I have been bitten by the problem of generating results using
different versions of packages and different versions of R. I know that
this is partly the idea behind Sweave (and other report generation
measures), and perhaps I am at fault for not keeping better track of these
types of things, but this seems like it would be useful to a lot of other
people besides just me.

Thoughts?

-Robert

Robert M. Flight, Ph.D.
University of Louisville Bioinformatics Laboratory
University of Louisville
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