[R] Which R version created a package?

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Sat Jan 26 18:06:40 CET 2008


On 26/01/2008 11:44 AM, Charles Annis, P.E. wrote:
> Greetings, R-ians:
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> I would like to know which version or R was used to create a given package.
> I think I remember seeing that topic discussed recently but cannot find it
> among my notes.  Can anyone tell me how to determine which version of R
> created a package?

You can see which version was used to build the package by looking in 
the DESCRIPTION file; that information is available in R via something like

  packageDescription("graphics", fields="Built")

Duncan Murdoch
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