Report versions of (external) third-party software used.
Syntax
R
extSoftVersion()
Return Value
A named character vector, currently with components zlibThe version of zlib in use. bzlibThe version of bzlib (from bzip2) in use. xzThe version of liblzma (from xz) in use. PCREThe version of PCRE in use. ICUThe version of ICU in use (if any, otherwise ""). TREThe version of libtre in use. iconvThe implementation and version of the iconv library in use (if known). readlineThe version of readline in use (if any, otherwise ""). BLASName of the binary/executable file with the implementation of BLA
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.
Examples
Example
R
# NOT RUN {
extSoftVersion()
## the PCRE version
sub(" .*", "", extSoftVersion()["PCRE"])
# }
See Also
libcurlVersion for the version of libCurl. La_version for the version of LAPACK in use. La_library for binary/executable file with LAPACK in use. grSoftVersion for third-party graphics software. tclVersion for the version of Tcl/Tk. pcre_config for PCRE configuration options.