if you load the package you can go
in help/Html help
then click "packages"
then click on your package to get the html help page
then click on the firt link (usually the name of the package)

if I do it for hgu133plus2 i get:

 Description

The annotation package was built using a downloadable R package - AnnBuilder
(download and build your own) from www.bioconductor.org using the following
public data sources:

Entrez Gene:ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/DATA/. Built: Source data
downloaded from Entrez Gene on Mon Sep 25 19:38:06 2006

Gene Ontology:http://archive.godatabase.org/latest/. Built: 08-Aug-2006

Golden Path:ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/currentGenomes/. Built:
No build info available.

KEGG:ftp://ftp.genome.ad.jp/pub/kegg/tarfiles/pathway.tar.gz. Built: Release
38.1, June 1, 2006

Mon Sep 25 20:14:15 2006

hgu133plus2

The function hgu133plus2() provides information about the binary data files



I guess this is what you look for ?

Marco







On 1/31/07, Ido M. Tamir <tamir@imp.univie.ac.at> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> is there any way to retrieve the information about
> the version/date of the source that was used for
> the annotation package in addition to the date
> for the generation of the package?
>
> thank you very much in advance
> ido
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